On behalf of the emperor, on behalf of the fatherland : : Finnish officers and soldiers of the Russian Imperial Life-Guard on the battlefields of Poland, 1831 / / by Jussi Jalonen.
Jussi Jalonen’s On Behalf of the Emperor, On Behalf of the Fatherland approaches the Russian suppression of the Polish Uprising in 1830-1831 from a new transnational perspective. The Russian mobilization involved people from the farthest reaches of the Empire, and one notable group was the Finnish B...
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| Superior document: | History of Warfare, Volume 105 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of warfare ;
Volume 105. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 The Battalion as a Society
- 2 The Onset of War
- 3 The Battles in Mazovia, April–May 1831
- 4 The Noble Enemy. The War as a Trans-National Experience
- 5 Combat, Glory and Captivity: Finnish Officers and Soldiers in the Summer of 1831
- 6 Destitution and Triumph: The Closing Stages of the Campaign
- 7 Home and Hearth: Finnish Society and the Polish Campaign
- 8 After the War: The Legacy of the Polish Campaign
- Conclusion: Loyalty, Fatherland and Forgotten Sacrifices
- Bibliography
- Index.