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Narrative Of The Peninsular War From 1808 To 1813
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Author : Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829
Narrative Of The Peninsular War From 1808 To 1813 written by Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
History Of The Peninsular War
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Author : Robert Southey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1837
History Of The Peninsular War written by Robert Southey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1837 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
The Peninsular War
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Author : Charles Esdaile
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-10-02
The Peninsular War written by Charles Esdaile and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-02 with History categories.
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.
History Of The Peninsular War
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Author : Robert Southey
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-07-21
History Of The Peninsular War written by Robert Southey and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-21 with Fiction categories.
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A History Of The Peninsular War Vol 1 Of 7
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Author : Charles Oman
language : en
Publisher: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
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A History Of The Peninsular War Vol 1 Of 7 written by Charles Oman and has been published by AT THE CLARENDON PRESS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
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...
History Of The Peninsular War
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Author : Robert Southey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1837
History Of The Peninsular War written by Robert Southey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1837 with categories.
A Narrative Of The Peninsular War
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Author : Andrew Leith Hay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1831
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Napoleon S Cursed War
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Author : Ronald Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2023-01-10
Napoleon S Cursed War written by Ronald Fraser and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with History categories.
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.
A History Of The Peninsular War
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Author : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
A History Of The Peninsular War written by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Peninsular War, 1807-1814 categories.
A History Of The Peninsular War Volume Vii August 1813 To April 14 1814
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Author : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
A History Of The Peninsular War Volume Vii August 1813 To April 14 1814 written by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman KBE and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
Illustrated with 18 maps and illustrations 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. Between August 1813 and the end of hostilities in April 1814, Napoleon's forces were finally expelled from the Iberian Peninsula. Wellington's army invaded southern France, only halting its operations when news was received of Napoleon's abdication. 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 sortie from Bayonne. A chapter on the place of the Peninsular War in history concludes Oman's monumental work.