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Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : WISC:89012633434
Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : UCBK:B000921704
Author : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898313
Illustrated with 9 maps and 2 portraits The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources. Sir Charles Oman's seven-volume history of the campaign is an unrivalled and essential work. His extensive use and analysis of French, Spanish, Portuguese and British participants' accounts and archival material, together with his own inspection of the battlefields, provides a comprehensive and balanced account of this most important episode in Napoleonic military history. The first part of this classic work provides the background to the war and its origins, and covers the early stages of the conflict. 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 the Iberian Peninsula, the first victories of Sir Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington), Napoleon's personal participation in the Spanish campaign, the French surrender at Baylen, and Sir John Moore's terrible retreat, ending with his death in the hour of victory at the Battle of Corunna.
Author : CHARLES. OMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103322524X
Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0331806908
Excerpt from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1: 1807-1809, From the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Battle of Corunna I have worked at the Record Office on the British official papers of the first years of the war, especially noting all the passages which are omitted in the printed dispatches of Moore and other British generals. The suppressed paragraphs (always placed within brackets marked with a pencil) contain a good deal of useful matter, mainly criticisms on individuals which it would not have been wise to publish at the time. There are a considerable number of intercepted French dispatches in the collection, and a certain amount of correspondence with the Spaniards which contains facts and figures generally unknown. Among the most interesting are the letters of General Leith, who was attached to the head quarters of Blake; in them I found by far the best account of the operations of the Army of Galicia in Oct. - Nov., 1808, which I have come upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles W. Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650146684
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : 1853672149
Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
It is many years since an attempt has been made in England to deal with the general history of the Peninsular War. Several interesting and valuable diaries or memoirs of officers who took part in the great struggle have been published of late, but no writer of the present generation has dared to grapple with the details of the whole of the seven years of campaigning that lie between the Dos Mayo and Toulouse. Napier’s splendid work has held the field for sixty years. Meanwhile an enormous bulk of valuable material has been accumulating in English, French, and Spanish, which has practically remained unutilized. Papers, public and private, are accessible whose existence was not suspected in the ’thirties; an infinite number of autobiographies and reminiscences which have seen the light after fifty or sixty years of repose in some forgotten drawer, have served to fill up many gaps in our knowledge. At least one formal history of the first importance, that of General Arteche y Moro, has been published. I fancy that its eleven volumes are practically unknown in England, yet it is almost as valuable as Toreño’s Guerra de la Independencia in enabling us to understand the purely Spanish side of the war. I trust therefore that it will not be considered presumptuous for one who has been working for some ten or fifteen years at the original sources to endeavour to summarize in print the results of his investigations; for I believe that even the reader who has already devoted a good deal of attention to the Peninsular War will find a considerable amount of new matter in these pages. My resolve to take in hand a general history of the struggle was largely influenced by the passing into the hands of All Souls College of the papers of one of its most distinguished fellows, the diplomatist Sir Charles Vaughan. Not only had Vaughan unique opportunities for observing the early years of the Peninsular War, but he turned them to the best account, and placed all his observations on record. I suppose that there was seldom a man who had a greater love for collecting and filing information. His papers contain not only his own diaries and correspondence, but an infinite number of notes made for him by Spanish friends on points which he desired to master, and a vast bulk of pamphlets, proclamations, newspapers, and tables of statistics, carefully bound together in bundles, which (as far as I can see) have not been opened between the day of his death and that on which they passed, by a legacy from his last surviving relative, into the possession of his old college. Vaughan landed at Corunna in September, 1808, in company with Charles Stuart, the first English emissary to the Central Junta. He rode with Stuart to Madrid and Aranjuez, noting everything that he saw, from Roman inscriptions to the views of local Alcaldes and priests on the politics of the day. He contrived to interview many persons of importance—for example, he heard from Cuesta’s own lips of his treasonable plot to overthrow the Junta, and he secured a long conversation with Castaños as to the Capitulation of Baylen, from which I have extracted some wholly new facts as to that event. He then went to Aragon, where he stayed three weeks in the company of the Captain-General Joseph Palafox. Not only did he cross-question Palafox as to all the details of his famous defence of Saragossa, but he induced San Genis (the colonel who conducted the engineering side of the operations) to write him a memorandum, twelve pages long, as to the character and system of his work. Vaughan accompanied Palafox to the front in November, but left the Army of Aragon a day before the battle of Tudela. Hearing of the disaster from the fugitives of Castaños’s army, he resolved to take the news to Madrid. To be continue in this ebook...
Author : Sir Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783315857
From the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Battle of Corunna 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. 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 the Iberian Peninsula, the first victories of Sir Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington), Napoleon's personal participation in the Spanish campaign, the French surrender at Baylen, and Sir John Moore's terrible retreat, ending with his death in the hour of victory at the Battle of Corunna.
Author : Charles William Chadwick Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404169619
Author : Sir Charles William Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783313048
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929523969
Syvbindsværk om den peninsulære krig, Napoleon's krig mod Spanien i årene 1807 til 1814. Spanien fik hjælp af den engelske og portugisiske hær, under ledelse af Wellington. Napoleon selv ledede kun få af felttogene i Spanien, flere af hans marskaller og generaler havde, udover hans bror Joseph Bonaparte, kommandoen, bl.a. Verdier, Bessieres, Dupont, Delaborde, Junot, Lannes, Debelle, Lefebvre-Desnouettes, Soult, Victor, Massena, Sebastiani, Reynier, Latour-Maubourg, Girard, Suchet, Barrie; Phillipon, Foy, Jourdan, Rey, og Toupin. Værket er grundigt og udførligt, og beskriver hele den lange og udmattende krig, det spanske kongedømme, den historiske baggrund, krigens udvikling og de mange problemer for den franske hær med spaniernes guerillakrigsførelse, Wellington's taktik, og den engelske hær med sine blandede allierede hjælpetropper m.m. m.m. Mange oversigter over troppernes bevægelser, kort, portrætter m.m.
Author : Charles Oman,Sir Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 185367589X
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 and Portugal. 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 from Oporto and culminating in the hard-fought victory at Talavera.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:871320513
Syvbindsværk om den peninsulære krig, Napoleon's krig mod Spanien i årene 1807 til 1814. Spanien fik hjælp af den engelske og portugisiske hær, under ledelse af Wellington. Napoleon selv ledede kun få af felttogene i Spanien, flere af hans marskaller og generaler havde, udover hans bror Joseph Bonaparte, kommandoen, bl.a. Verdier, Bessieres, Dupont, Delaborde, Junot, Lannes, Debelle, Lefebvre-Desnouettes, Soult, Victor, Massena, Sebastiani, Reynier, Latour-Maubourg, Girard, Suchet, Barrie; Phillipon, Foy, Jourdan, Rey, og Toupin. Værket er grundigt og udførligt, og beskriver hele den lange og udmattende krig, det spanske kongedømme, den historiske baggrund, krigens udvikling og de mange problemer for den franske hær med spaniernes guerillakrigsførelse, Wellington's taktik, og den engelske hær med sine blandede allierede hjælpetropper m.m. m.m. Mange oversigter over troppernes bevægelser, kort, portrætter m.m.
Author : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898320
Illustrated with 9 maps and 5 portraits The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources. Sir Charles Oman's seven-volume history of the campaign is an unrivalled and essential work. His extensive use and analysis of French, Spanish, Portuguese and British participants' accounts and archival material, together with his own inspection of the battlefields, provides a comprehensive and balanced account of this most important episode in Napoleonic military history. The fate of the Iberian Peninsula was very much in the balance during the period January-September 1809, when it seemed all too possible that Napoleon would achieve control over Spain and Portugal. 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 from Oporto and culminating in the hard-fought victory at Talavera.
