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Author : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : UOM:39015036084849
Author : Charles Esdaile
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927855
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 could have prepared the Spanish for the devastating implosion of 1805-14. Trafalgar destroyed its navy and the country degenerated into a brutalized shambles with French and British armies marching across it at will. The result was a war which killed over a million Spaniards and ended its empire. This book is the first in a generation to come to terms with this spectacular and terrible conflict, immortalised by Goya and the arena in which Wellington and his redcoats carved out one of the greatest episodes in British military history.
Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQ459
Author : Stuart Reid
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526737649
An historic account of the Peninsula War written by the man leading forces against the French, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Though pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to his published dispatches. Yet Wellington did, in effect, write a history of the Peninsular War in the form of four lengthy memoranda, summarizing the conduct of the war in 1809, 1810, and 1811 respectively. These lengthy accounts demonstrate Wellington’s unmatched appreciation of the nature of the war in Spain and Portugal, and relate to the operations of the French and Spanish forces as well as the Anglo-Portuguese army under his command. Unlike personal diaries or journals written by individual soldiers, with their inevitably limited knowledge, Wellington was in an unparalleled position to provide a comprehensive overview of the war. Equally, the memoranda were written as the war unfolded, not tainted with the knowledge of hindsight, providing a unique contemporaneous commentary. Brought together by renowned historian Stuart Reid with reports and key dispatches from the other years of the campaign, the result is the story of the Peninsular War told through the writings of the man who knew and understood the conflict in Iberia better than any other. These memoranda and dispatches have never been published before in a single connected narrative. Therefore, Wellington’s History of the Peninsular War 1808-1814 offers a uniquely accessible perspective on the conflict in the own words of Britain’s greatest general.
Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : WISC:89012633434
Author : Michael Glover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : 0141390417
This volume provides a fascinating insight into what it was like to march and fight, to eat and be wounded, to command and be commanded at the start of the 19th century. Stress is laid on the technological limitations of warfare at that time.
Author : David Gates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010697327
Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368903794
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Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:498359780
Author : Ronald Fraser
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839767883
A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of Spain In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor’s devastating defeat against the popular opposition—the guerrillas—and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war, Fraser brings to life the anonymous masses—the artisans, peasants and women who fought, suffered and died—and restores their role in this barbaric war to its rightful place while overturning the view that this was a straightforward military campaign. This vivid, meticulously researched book offers a distinct and profound vision of “Napoleon’s Vietnam” and shows the reality of the disasters of war: the suffering, discontents and social upheaval that accompanied the fighting. With a new Introduction by Tariq Ali.
Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : 1853676349
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic necessity to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources. During this period, the outcome of the war was effectively decided by Wellington's advance from Portugal into Spain. The operations that took place at this time included the French campaigns of late 1811, the Allied offensive, and Wellington's great victory at Salamanca. Includes comprehensive maps, orders of battle, and lists of strengths and casualties.
Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
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 : Charles Oman (Sir)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650146684
Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368903831
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Author : Robert Southey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368903893
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