Volume V covers the period during which the outcome of the war was effectively decided by Wellington's great advance from Portugal into Spain. The operations that took place at this time include the French campaigns of late 1811; Wellington's offensive at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz; and his great victory at Salamanca.
The first part of Sir Charles Oman's classic history provides the background to the war and its origins, and covers the early stages of the conflict.
This is an unrivalled account in which Sir Charles Oman covers the Great Wars of 1494-1559; Henry VllI's continental wars; the French Wars of Religion, 1562-98; the Dutch War of Independence, 1568-1603; and the Turkish offensive against ...
Both scholarly and accessible this is wonderful account of the strategies, tactics and military organisation that took place during the Middle Ages.
THE BEST ACCOUNT OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE BY THE AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR This is an unrivalled account of sixteenth-century warfare, in which Sir Charles Oman traces the dramatic, far-reaching changes in the military ...
This volume covers the continuing Spanish resistance to French occupation, the renewed French invasion of Portugal, and the subsequent victories of Sir Arthur Wellesley.
Both scholarly and accessible this is wonderful account of the strategies, tactics and military organisation that took place during the Middle Ages.
From The Battle of Corunna to the end of The Talavera Campaign The fate of the Iberian Peninsula was in the balance during January-September 1809, when it seemed possible that Napoleon would achieve control over Spain and Portugal.
Introducing the subject and many of its main players, this volume recounts the French invasion of Portugal and the forcible deposition of the Spanish royal family, the beginning of Spanish popular resistance, the arrival of the British in ...
This history of medieval warfare, originally written in 1885 when its author—later one of the great medievalists—was still an undergraduate at Oxford, remains for students and general readers one of the best accounts of military art in ...
Reproduction of the original: The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman