Battlefield Integration Wellingtons Use Of Portuguese And Spanish Forces During The 1812 Salamanca Campaign
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Author | : John B. Yorko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2009 |
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This thesis examines how the Duke of Wellington used Portuguese and Spanish forces during his 1812 Salamanca campaign. Wellington assessed the strengths and weaknesses of his allies, and then leveraged them throughout the campaign within the constraints of dissimilar command relationships. He was able to supplement his British formations largely with Portuguese forces as well as prevent the numerically superior French forces from massing on his army through influence and interaction with Spanish forces. Analysis of how Wellington engaged in military actions with allies who had divergent political interests and varying degrees of military capability offers lessons in coalition warfare that are still applicable today.
Author | : GAUD NCIO MOIS S (. ROBERT, BURNHAM) |
Publisher | : Pen & Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781526761682 |
The literature of the Peninsular War is rich with vivid source material - letters, diaries, memoirs, and dispatches - but most of it was written by British soldiers or by the French and their allies. As a result the history and experience of the Portuguese forces - which by 1812 composed close to half of Wellington's Army - have been seriously under-represented. That is why this pioneering book, which publishes for the first time in English the after-action reports written by the commanders of Portuguese battalions, regiments and brigades, is so important. For these detailed, graphic firsthand accounts give us a fascinating insight into the vital contribution the Portuguese made to the allied army and shed new light on the struggle against the French in the Iberian Peninsula.The authors provide an introduction tracing the history of the Portuguese Army prior to the Salamanca campaign of 1812, while tracking its organizational changes and assignment of commanders from 1808 to 1814. They include detailed notes on the after-action reports which set them in the context of each stage of the conflict.
Author | : Andrew Roberts |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2010-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0297865269 |
A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian. 'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously researched' Observer On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses.
Author | : David Hamilton-Williams |
Publisher | : Wiley |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780471145714 |
Critical acclaim for Waterloo: New Perspectives The Great Battle Reappraised. "[T]he most important study of the Waterloo Campaign to have appeared in print for 150 years." —The Napoleonic Society of America. "A meticulously detailed account of the Battle of Waterloo that sets right some of the errors and omissions of facts committed by earlier contemporary authors —recommended." —Library Journal. "A superior account of the campaign—free of nationalist bias, thoroughly researched, and clearly written."—Booklist "A thoughtful and dispassionate examination of the battle that brought Napoleon's power to an end ...a valuable addition to anyone's Napoleonic shelf." —The Washington Times.
Author | : Helena P. Schrader |
Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1627876243 |
Emperor Frederick II, called "enlightened" by historians yet decried as a despot by contemporaries, unleashes a civil war that tears the Holy Land apart. The heir to an intimidating legacy, a woman artist, and a boy king are caught up in the game of emperors and popes. Set against the backdrop of the Sixth Crusade, Rebels against Tyranny takes you from the harems of Sicily to the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, from the palaces of privilege to the dungeons of despair. This is a timeless tale of youthful audacity taking on tyranny―but sometimes courage is not enough....
Author | : David Gates |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2011-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1446448762 |
Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day. There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are only a handful of scholarly works that seek to cover the Napoleonic Wars in their entirety, and fewer still that place the conflict in any broader framework. This study redresses the balance. Drawing on recent findings and applying a 'total' history approach, it explores the causes and effects of the conflict, and places it in the context of the evolution of modern warfare. It reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures, including the war at sea and Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-9. The study gives an insight into the factors that shaped the war, setting the struggle in its wider economic, cultural, political and intellectual dimensions.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
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The Aspects of Britain series is an up-to-date, unbiased guide to life in Great Britain today. Aspect titles are grouped in six different categories: Government and Administration, Overseas Relations, Social and Cultural Affairs, Britain and its People, Industry, and Environment. Each book is 6 x 8 1/4 and illustrated throughout with b&w and color illustrations.
Author | : Anne Stibbs |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780747550754 |
An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.
Author | : Chretien de Troyes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1987-09-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0300038380 |
A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love
Author | : Anju Gattani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781953100092 |
To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy. On her wedding night, however, Sheetal quickly learns that the stranger she married is as cold as the marble floors of the Dhanraj mansion. Forced to smile at family members and cameras and pretend there's nothing wrong with her marriage, Sheetal begins to discover that the family she married into harbors secrets, lies and deceptions powerful enough to tear apart her world. With no one to rely on and no escape, Sheetal must ally with her husband in an attempt to protect her infant son from the tyranny of his family.sion.