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Salamanca, 1812 (Paperback)
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22 July 1812. Salamanca, Spain. Frustrated at their first advance,
British forces under Wellington's command have spent the last four
days manoeuvring and retreating from the French army. Patient and
cautious, Wellington is determined not to make a fatal mistake. He
glimpses a moment of opportunity and grasps it, committing all of
his troops to a sudden devastating attack. At the end of the day,
the French army is broken, panic-stricken and reeling; Wellington
has achieved the finest victory of his brilliant military career.
This book examines in unprecedented detail the celebrated battle of
Salamanca, the critical British victory that proved crushing to
French pride and morale during the Peninsular War (1808-14).
Focusing on the day of the battle, Rory Muir skilfully conveys the
experience of ordinary soldiers on both sides, dissects each phase
of the fighting and explores the crucial decisions made by each
commander. He employs wide-ranging British and French sources -
many unpublished or obscure - to reconstruct every aspect of the
battle. Having walked the battlefield himself, a site which remains
today much as it was in 1812, Muir relates the ebb and flow of the
battle with particular vividness. In separate commentary sections
he evaluates the sources and indicates the inevitable
contradictions and gaps in evidence that have emerged during his
research. Complete with maps, battleground plans, line drawings and
photographs, this compelling book provides acute analysis of a
single day in Salamanca that changed European history. Rory Muir is
visiting research fellow in the department of history, University
of Adelaide. He is the author of 'Britain and the Defeat of
Napoleon, 1807-1815', which won the best book of the year award of
the International Napoleonic Society, and 'Tactics and the
Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon', both published by
Yale University Press.
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