Napoleon's forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they overran the southern region of Andalucía. Situated at the farthest frontier of Napoleon's "outer empire," Andalucía remained under French control only briefly-for two-and-a-half years-and never experience…
These men depended on the king's shilling for survival, yet pay was erratic and provisions were scant. Fed worse even than sixteenth-century Spanish galley slaves, they often marched for days without adequate food; and if during the campaign they did steal from Portuguese and Sp…
"In Wellington's two-front war, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England -- with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion ... Drawing on…
"In Wellington's two-front war, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England -- with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion ... Drawing on…
Wellington's army in the Peninsula, 1809-14
by Reid, Stuart, Anderson, Duncan
fromBattle orders
" ... the authors assess British Romanticism's creative and polemical engagements with the Peninsular War, the bid of Spanish American colonies to establish independence with British support, and the impact of travel narratives about Spain and the Americas."--Page 4 of cover.
