A cavalryman in the Crimea : the letters of Temple Godman, 5th Dragoon guards / edited by Philip Warner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warner, Philip, 1914-2000, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimean War, 1853-1856--Personal narratives, British.

Crimean War, 1853-1856.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire, England : Pen & Sword Military, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Among the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, Richard Temple Godman, who sent home throughout the entire Crimea campaign many detailed letters to his family at Park Hatch in Surrey. Temple Godman went out at the start of the war, took part in the successful Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava and in other engagements, and did not return to England until June 1856, after peace had been declared. He took three very individual horses and despite all his adventures brought them back unscathed.Godman's dispatches from the fields of

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Warships to Varna""; ""2 The Brushwood Plain""; ""3 Cholera""; ""4 Charge of the Heavy Brigade""; ""5 The Winter Siege""; ""6 Building for Survival""; ""7 Bombardment of Sebastopol""; ""8 The Attempt on the Malakoff""; ""9 The Fruits of Victory""; ""10 Home from the Field""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 4, 2014).

ISBN:

9781473813052

1473813050

9781783833733

1783833734

OCLC:

881366935