The Most Striking Events of a Twelvemonth's Campaign with Zumalacarregui: In Navarre and the Basque Provinces, Volume 1
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Doce meses de campaña con Zumalakarregi: Twelvemonth?s Campaign with Zumalakarregi (Spanish Edition)
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La obra de Henningsen no constituye una historia de la Primera Guerra Carlista y en ello precisamente radica su inmenso valor. Es la crónica de un capitán de lanceros sobre su participación en la campaña militar carlista. El relato de Henningsen abarca desde el otoño de 1833 cuando tras la muerte de Fernando VII de Castilla y II de Navarra, Zumalakarregi huye de Pamplona por la puerta del Carmen y se une a la causa carlista hasta su muerte en Zegama dos años más tarde, el 24 de junio de 1835 a las diez y media de la mañana tal como relató el autor. Es por tanto el relato de primera mano, eminentemente militar, de los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar durante la primera fase de la guerra, entre 1833 y 1835. Tras la muerte de Zumalakarregi Henningsen abandonó Euskadi. Henningsen entendió la guerra como una campaña de “desnacionalización” similar a la ocurrida en la Vendée entre 1793 y 1796. Hoy lo denominamos genocidio. En sus propias palabras, “las provincias del Norte sólo pueden ser sometidas por el exterminio de la población masculina, el trasplante de las familias, el incendio de las cosechas y la destrucción de toda habitación humana, como intentó la Convención francesa en La Vendée. Mas el hacer todo esto en un país como el actual teatro de la guerra, que burló al genio de Napoleón con todas sus legiones, y donde todo acto arbitrario, en lugar de sembrar el terror, arma nuevas masas de población, requería, yo creo, un ejército más grande que el que jamás se ha reunido bajo hombre alguno desde los días de Jerjes”. Este primer volumen de la Colección Zumalakarregi constituye la primera edición bilingüe del original e incluye por primera vez los bosquejos que Henningsen realizó durante la campaña, cuyos originales se conservan en el archivo del Museo Zumalakarregi de Ormaiztegi.
Analogies and Contrasts: Or, Comparative Sketches of France and England. In Two Volumes - Vol. II. London-1848
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Most of Great Britain, made up by Englan...)
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Most of Great Britain, made up by England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, was conquered by Rome, which ruled the island for almost 500 years. Subjected to raids by Continental Angles, Jutes and Saxons, in 1066 England was conquered by the Normans, who were eventually assimilated. While Wales came under Anglo-Norman control in 1282, it wasn't officially annexed by England until the 16th century. After the Wars of Scottish Independence, the House of Stuart ruled Scotland uncontested for three centuries. In 1707 England, Scotland and Wales formed the United Kingdom, which fueled by such developments as the England-led Industrial Revolution, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the building of the expansive British Empire. The Empire came under extreme pressure during World War 1, and was further weakened by World War 2, resulting in its dissolution, and the establishment of the British Commonwealth of Nations in its place.
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Eastern Europe and the Emperor Nicholas, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Russia is not a country commonly visited by tourists. The traveller who attempts to quit the beaten track of communication between St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, or Odessa, is soon turned back in diifgust by the inconvenient formalities which at every step arrest his progress, whilst there is nothing to excite the adventurous spirit whose energy positive prohibition or actual danger might have roused. Natives, and resident foreigners, habitually cautious in compressing their opinions, become doubly guarded in their intercourse with strangers, whose indiscretion may prove so dangerous. It is absurd, therefore, to look to any but residents for a true picture of the condition of that country; but residents having usually acquired such knowledge as they possess in the government service, or in a diplomatic VOL. III.
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Charles Frederick Henningsen was a Belgian-born American soldier and writer. He participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain, Nicaragua, Hungary, and the United States.
Background
Charles Henningsen was born on February 21, 1815, in Brussels, Belgium. He was of Scandinavian ancestry. His tombstone asserts that he was a “Briton by birth, but other evidence points to Belgium as his birthplace. He early became a British citizen, however, and in 1830 his parents established their residence in England.
Career
At nineteen Charles Henningsen entered the service of the Carlists in Spain, where he was knighted in 1835 and made a captain of lancers. He served in this capacity until the death of his general, Zumalacarregui, in 1836, returned after a peace convention to England, but at a fresh outbreak of hostilities reentered the struggle and won new laurels.
At some time before 1845 he campaigned with the revolutionist Prophet of the Caucasus, Schamyl, fighting in the snows against Russian mountaineers. Later, a fugitive in Asia Minor, he rushed back to Europe to help the Hungarians in their uprising against Austria and distinguished himself as commander at Comorn. At the close of this revolution he followed its leader, Kossuth, first to Turkey, then, in 1851, to the United States, serving as his confidential secretary. Remaining in the United States, he learned to know the Southern people and their problems.
In October 1856, Henningsen joined the expedition to Nicaragua under the filibuster William Walker, taking with him $30, 000 worth of stores, arms, and ammunition given by himself, his wife, and others. He had previously supervised the conversion into Minie rifles of several thousand old army muskets purchased for the expedition by George Law. Appointed brigadier-general and given charge of the artillery, he served until the end of the war. Returning to the United States in 1857 he took up his residence in Georgia.
In 1861, Henningsen offered his services to the Confederate States and on October 14 of that year was appointed colonel of the 59th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (originally known as the Wise Legion), to date from August 1. As senior colonel he commanded the post at Dogwood Gap. He resigned on November 5, 1862. Although he was recommended for promotion to brigadier-general, there is no evidence that he received the appointment. Despite his military experience he never attained distinction in the Confederate service. Later he became interested in Cuban independence.
Henningsen had some ability as a poet and translator of verse, but his chief medium of expression was prose, which was notable for its forceful style, its wide range of vocabulary, and its facile use of English idiom. His writings deal accurately and fearlessly with the social, cultural, military, and political aspects of peoples and countries. They are the records of his own observations and are in the main descriptive, historical, and didactic in character. Written in a direct, lucid, serious, and convincing vein, where fact excludes fancy, they are both valuable and entertaining.
Especially noteworthy are his accounts of Polish, Russian, and Finnish literature.
Several of his works appeared in two or three volumes; many in several editions; not a few were translated into foreign languages; and some were published simultaneously in the United States and in England. His descriptions of Russia opened the eyes of Europe to conditions in that country.
The last years of his life Henningsen resided under needy circumstances in Washington, the District of Columbia, where he died and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery.