Description
Book SynopsisThis volume – covering the final years of the Peninsular War and the long trek over the Pyrenees into France – concludes the author's remarkable in-depth study of the army that fought alongside Wellington's redcoats throughout the Peninsular War. Prior to 1813 it was the Spanish armies that bore the brunt of the fighting and this text – based on primary research in Spanish and British archives which will be new to most readers – fills a large and long-standing gap in our knowledge of those Napoleonic campaigns which have always fascinated English-speaking students of the period.
Table of ContentsResistance and British aid; British attitudes; the cost; the state of the Spanish army; uniforms and equipment; generals and staff; cavalry; infantry; artillery; engineers and sappers; guerillas; regional volunteers and armed peasantry; offshore islands and presidios; military academies; the navy.
