Author: Charles Oman
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Author: David Gates
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712697309
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 557

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By July 1807, following his spectacular victories over Austria, Prussia and Russia, Napoleon dominated most of Europe. The only significant gap in his continental system was the Iberian Peninsula. He therefore begun a series of diplomatic and military moves aimed at forcing Spain and Portugal to toe the line, leading to a popular uprising against the French and the outbreak of war in May 1808. Napoleon considered the war in the Peninsula, which he ruefully called 'The Spanish Ulcer', so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying on his marshals instead, and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Yet the war was to end with total defeat for the French. In late 1813 Wellington's army crossed the Pyrenees into the mainland of France. This is the first major military history of the war for half a century. Combining scholarship with a vivid narrative, it reveals a war of unexpected savagery, of carnage at times so great as to be comparable to the First World War. But it was also a guerilla war, fought on beautiful but difficult terrain, where problems of supply loomed large. The British Navy, dominant at sea after Trafalgar, was able to provide crucial support to the hard-pressed, ill-equipped and often outnumbered forces fighting the French. Dr Gates' history can claim to be the first to provide a serious assessment of the opposing generals and their troops, as well as analysing in detail the social and political background. The Peninsular war is particularly rich in varied and remarkable campaigns, and his book will fascinate all those who enjoy reading military history.

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

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Author: Helen Graham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192803778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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"Helen Graham highlights the domestic and international context of the Spanish Civil War, and reveals its origins in the political and cultural anxieties provoked by the rapid modernization of Europe. Using personal narratives, she combines a powerfully human account of the war an its aftermath with a disturbing ethical enquiry into its legacy for the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732690040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Reproduction of the original: A History of the Peninsula War by Charles William Chadwick Oman

Author: Charles Oman
Publisher:
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Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Simón Bolívar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199881782
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolívar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolívar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region's fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals for Latin American integration are relevant and widely read today, even among Latin Americans of all countries and of all political persuasions. The "Cartagena Letter," the "Jamaica Letter," and the "Angostura Address," are widely cited and reprinted.

Author: William Francis Patrick Napier
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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