The Peninsular War : a new history
A new look at Napoleon's campaign across the Iberian Peninsula. Peopled with some of history's greatest figures, including Wellington and Napoleon, this is great history written on an epic scale
Print Book, English, 2003
1st Palgrave Macmillan ed View all formats and editions
Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2003
xv, 587 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
9781403962317, 1403962316
52413642
Lisbon: the origins of the Peninsular War
Madrid: the Iberian insurrections, May-June 1808
Bailén: the Summer Campaign of 1808
Vimeiro: the Liberation of Portugal, August 1808
Somosierra: Napoleon's Revenge, November-December 1808
La Coruña: the Campaign of Sir John Moore, December 1808-January 1809
Oporto: conquest frustrated, January-June 1809
Talavera: the Fall of the Junta Central, July 1809-January 1810
Seville: the Bonaparte Kingdom of Spain 1808-1813
Pancorbo: the emergence of Guerrilla War, 1808-1810
Cádiz: the making of the Spanish Revolution, 1810-1812
Torres Vedras: the defence of Portugal, July 1810-March 1811
Albuera: stalemate on the Portuguese Frontier, March-December 1811
Badajoz: the Anglo-Portuguese Offensive of 1812
Burgos: the Autumn Campaign of 1812
Vitoria: the defeat of King Joseph, January-June 1813
Pyrenees: the invasion of France, July-November 1813
Báscara: peace and thereafter
Originally published in 2002 by Allen Lane