Author: M. de Rocca
Publisher:
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: [Albert Jean Michel] 1788-1818 Rocca
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780343115937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: [Albert Jean Michel] 1788-1818 Rocca
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293671184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Author: comte Maximilien Foy
Publisher:
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: J. Tranié
Publisher: Arms & Armour Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Albert Jean Michel Rocca
Publisher:
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Charles J. Esdaile
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317899180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A survey of the Napoleonic Wars. The central theme is the scale of French military power and its impact on other European states from Portugal to Russia and from Scandinavia to Sicily.

Author: Paul L Dawson
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 152675410X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463

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A renowned historian captures the French experience of the Peninsular War through soldiers’ unpublished memoirs and eyewitness accounts. While much has been written about the British campaigns of the Peninsular War, surprisingly little has been published in English on their opponents, the French. Now, using previously unseen material from the French army archives in Paris, Paul Dawson tells the story of the early years of the Peninsular War as never before. Eyewitness accounts of the Siege of Zaragoza and the Spanish defeats at Medellin and Ocaña are interspersed with details of campaign life and of struggling through the Galician mountains in pursuit of the British army. Dawson captures the perspectives of ordinary French soldiers and their beliefs about the war they were fighting for their Emperor. Napoleon’s Peninsular War is a vital and unprecedented addition to our understanding of the war in Iberia.

Author: Robert Southey
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: John Lawrence Tone
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807821695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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From 1808 to 1814, Spaniards waged a guerrilla war against the French Empire, turning Spain into a nightmare for Napoleon's armies and making the Peninsular War one of the most violent conflicts of the nineteenth century. In The Fatal Knot, John Tone recounts the events of this conflict from the perspective of the Spanish guerrillas, whose story has long been ignored in histories centered on Wellington and the French marshals. Focusing on the insurgent army of Francisco Espoz y Mina, Tone offers a new interpretation of the origins and motives of this first guerrilla force and describes the devastating impact of Mina's guerrillas on Napoleon's troops. Tone argues that traditional explanations for the guerrillas' resistance are inadequate. The insurgents were neither bandits in search of booty nor patriots fighting for king, country, and church. Rather, they were landowning peasants who fought to protect their own interests within the old regime in Navarre, a regime that was marked by something like a true "moral economy," reflected in the economic and institutional empowerment of the peasantry. It was this social order and the guerrilla movement it generated that constituted Napoleon's "fatal knot."