For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it. Nothing...
The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War
A History of the Peninsular War
A History of the Peninsular War
The fate of the Iberian Peninsula was very much in the balance during the period JanuaryûSeptember 1809, when it seemed all too possible that Napoleon would achieve control over Spain...
It is exhaustive in detail and in breadth of coverage. If it happened, it is in one of these volumes. Napoleon may have considered Spain a side show, but as results turned out it was a bleeding ulcer.
The events covered in this volume include the British siege and capture of St Sebastian; the final campaigning in eastern Spain; Wellington's invasion of France; and the last actions of the war in the Battle of Toulouse and the French ...
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This volume covers the continuing Spanish resistance to French occupation, the renewed French invasion of Portugal, and the return to the Peninsula and subsequent victories of Sir Arthur Wellesley, including his outmanoeuvring of the French ...
{731} This is Suchet's own view, see his Mémoires, ii. p. 251. {732} See above, p.98. ... l/81st, l/58th, 4th and 6th Line battalions K.G.L., and parts of the foreign battalions of De Roll, Dillon, and the Calabrian Free Corps.