... 1 Coy Brunswick Oels Dunlop's Brigade 1/4th, 2/30th, 3/44th, 1 Coy Brunswick Oels Spry's Portuguese Brigade 3rd Line (2 Bttns), 15th Line (2 Bttns), 8th Caçadores 6th Division General Alexander Campbell 5,250 Hulse's Brigade 1/11th, ...
H. Wellesley to Wellington, 6 August 1812, US WP 12/2/3. 2. ... H. Wellesley to Castlereagh, 19 November 1812, Public Record Office, Foreign Office papers (hereafter PRO FO) 72/132, ff. ... Fletcher, For King and Country, p. 226.
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...
Nothing could have prepared the Spanish for the devastating implosion of 1808-14. Trafalgar destroyed its navy and the country degenerated into a brutalized shambles. This work comes to terms with this conflict.
A unique collection of original essays by distinguished British and American authors published to mark the 190th anniversary of the Peninsular War, the book provides an analysis of aspects not...