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British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon - Volunteering under the Spanish Flag in the Peninsular War (Paperback, Nippod)
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British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon - Volunteering under the Spanish Flag in the Peninsular War (Paperback, Nippod)
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This book unveils the role of a hitherto unrecognized group of men
who, long before the International Brigades made its name in the
Spanish Civil War, also found reasons to fight under the Spanish
flag. Their enemy was not fascism, but what could be at times an
equally overbearing ideology: Napoleon's imperialism. Although
small in number, British volunteers played a surprisingly
influential role in the conduct of war operations, in politics,
gender and social equality, in cultural life both in Britain and
Spain and even in relation to emancipation movements in Latin
America. Some became prisoners of war while a few served with
guerrilla forces. Many of the works published about the Peninsular
War in the last two decades have adopted an Anglocentric narrative,
writing the Spanish forces out of victories, or have tended to
present the war, not as much won by the allies, but lost by the
French. This book takes a radically different approach by drawing
on previously untapped archival sources to argue that victory was
the outcome of a truly transnational effort.
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