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Marie Françoise Huc was born in 1765 in Boucherville, Quebec. At the age of fifteen she married the surgeon Herman Melchior Eberts, a member of an Austrian regiment brought to Quebec by the British to help them quell the American Revolution. They had several children before Herman was banished from Quebec for committing a crime in the eyes of the Catholic Church. He went to far-off Detroit, still a British outpost. Marie and the children manag...

Marie Françoise Huc was born in 1765 in Boucherville, Quebec. At the age of fifteen she married the surgeon Herman Melchior Eberts, a member of an Austrian regiment brought to Quebec by the British to help them quell the American Revolution. They had several children before Herman was banished from Quebec for committing a crime in the eyes of the Catholic Church. He went to far-off Detroit, still a British outpost. Marie and the children manag...

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In this objective, practical and authoritative introduction to animal law, the author examines the foundational concepts of the human-animal relationship and how those principles have, or have not, been translated into contemporary animal welfare law. The book has international application and combines science and ethics.

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The thrilling true story of a field surgical unit in World War II. With no helicopters to move wounded soldiers to operating tables, they moved the surgeons to the wounded!

The first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington.

Virtually all the fighting on land between the British and French armies during the Napoleonic Wars took place in Spain and Portugal. This guide concentrates on the main military actions described from the point of view of the British armies under Wellington and his Portugese allies. The battles and battlefields are described in detail and illustrated with a profusion of maps, plans, contemporary plates and photographs.

Drawing on eyewitness accounts and official dispatches, Ian Robertson outlines the nature of the war as well as traces the complicated maneuvering and operations of the British and French armies. He describes in detail such hard-fought actions as the Nivelle, Orthez, Toulouse, and Bayonne and throws light on some less well known clashes, many of which were fought in the unforgiving terrain of the Pyrenees.

A definitive concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings right up to the politics and life of the present day. Illustrated with maps and line drawings, the book has a full Historical Gazetteer that concentrates on the historic sites.

Long before he marched on Russia, Napoleon's attempt to place his brother Joseph on the throne of Spain proved to be one conquest too many. In a long series of campaigns from 1808 to 1814, Napoleon's subordinate marshals and generals proved incapable of defeating the British army under Wellington that had come to the aid of Spain and Portugal, while French encampments and supply columns were bedeviled by Spanish irregulars who added the word "...