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Ladies, Wives and Women : British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 by David Clammer (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Most of them managed to acquire a donkey to carry their few possessions. More often they had to search a battlefield for a wounded husband or his mutilated remains. Most vanished from the record.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHelion & Company, The Limited

ISBN-101915113903

ISBN-139781915113900

eBay Product ID (ePID)25057261937

Product Key Features

Book TitleLadies, Wives and Women : British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815

Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicWomen, Military / Napoleonic Wars, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorDavid Clammer

Book SeriesFrom Reason to Revolution Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number99

Dewey Decimal941.07

SynopsisBritish regimental wives marched with the troops and endured all the hardships of campaigning from hunger and childbirth to sickness and capture. Often undisciplined and sometimes drunk, they were expert plunderers. They washed, cooked and helped their men, and in tending the wounded they were often heroines of the battlefield., During the Napoleonic wars it was customary for British troops ordered on active service to take some of their wives with them. The usual proportion was six women per hundred men. The wives who were to accompany their husbands were chosen by ballot: excitement for the lucky ones and anguish for those left behind. The latter often marched with the regiment to the port of departure, desperate to remain with their men till the last moment, and there were harrowing scenes as families were separated, perhaps forever.The women who were to accompany their husbands had to endure all the hazards of the high seas, often in slow and leaky transports. In bad weather, conditions resembled a slave ship, with men and women battened down below, rolling about and seasick in the darkness. There were storms, fires, childbirth and sometimes shipwreck to contend with.Once landed in the theater of war, the women faced a life of almost constant marching in summer heat and winter cold. Most of them managed to acquire a donkey to carry their few possessions. There were no tents until late in the war, and regiments were either quartered in whatever buildings were available, or bivouacked in the open. Clothing and especially shoes wore out, and women often had to supply their wants by stripping the dead. Food was frequently in short supply, and, as they were entitled only to half a man's ration, they were notorious plunderers. This frequently resulted in brutal punishment from the provost marshals.After battles or sieges, soldiers' wives tended the wounded, but they were also determined looters, and shared the army's besetting sin of drunkenness. Occasionally they were taken prisoner, and were sometimes involved in the actual fighting. More often they had to search a battlefield for a wounded husband or his mutilated remains. Many women were widowed, and solved the problem by quick remarriage to another soldier, some of them several times.After the war, the survivors came home to an uncertain future. Some prospered; others slipped into penury. Some had a surprising later life, and a few earned themselves permanent memorials. Most vanished from the record. This book is an attempt to shed some light on these forgotten heroines and their part in the country's long war against the French.

LC Classification NumberDA67