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The Spanish Ulcer - A History Of Peninsular War (Paperback, Revised)
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The Spanish Ulcer - A History Of Peninsular War (Paperback, Revised)
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The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly
fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814,
Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by
Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's
troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula.
Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely
bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his
marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrous Russian
campaign of 1812. Yet the Peninsular War was to end with total
defeat for the French, and in 1813 Wellington's army crossed the
Pyrenees into mainland France. What Napoleon had called "the
Spanish ulcer" ultimately helped bring down the French empire.
Michael Howard of Oxford University hailed this book as "a major
achievement...the first brief and balanced account of the war to
have appeared within our generation." Illustrated with over a
hundred maps and fifty contemporary drawings and paintings, this is
a richly detailed history of a crucial period in history that
resonates powerfully to this day--and figures prominently in
Bernard Cornwell's internationally acclaimed novels of the
Napoleonic era.
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