The English troops were welcomed when they landed in Portugal. Their commander Sir Arthur Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, defeated Junot's dispersed army at Cintra on August 30, 1808 ...
In the history of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), especially when it comes to English-language sources, there always has been a bias towards the stories of the British and French armies. This is ...
Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. x, 302. Illus., maps, diagr., side bars, append., notes, index. . $42.95. ISBN: 152675732X British ...
The Peninsular War was one of the longest and most drawn-out campaigns of the Napoleonic War; a piece of Imperial regime change designed to close off the last European ports open to British trade, ...
Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French troops ...
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