PALL MALL MILITARY SERIES WELLINGTONS CAMPAIGNS Peninsula – Waterloo 1808 – 15, Also Moore’s Campaign Of Corunna. For Military Students

Wellington faced and defeated many of Napoleon’s marshals as the Commander-in-Chief of the Anglo-Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War, but his best-known battle was at Waterloo in 1815 where he led an Anglo-Allied force to a decisive victory over Napoleon.Originally published in 1907 as part of the valued ‘Pall Mall Series’ of military text books – works that are now regarded as classics of military theory and intended for serious or professional students of military history – each volume in this sought-after series is interspersed with strategical and tactical comments and illustrated by numerous maps.

CONTENT:
Introduction
CHAPTER I – ORIGIN OF WAR
CHAPTER II – PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE MOVEMENTS OF ORGANISED ARMIES- MILITARY STRENGTH, ETC., OF THE CONTENDING POWERS IN THIS WAR.
– Importance of the Study of Military Topography
– Topography of the Peninsula
CHAPTER III – CAMPAIGN IN PORTUGAL 1808
– Roleia
– Vimiera
– Convention of Cintra
CHAPTER IV – CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN 1808-9
– Moore enters Spain
– Napoleon advances against Him
– Retreat to Corunna
CHAPTER V – CAMPAIGN IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN 1809 FIRST PERIOD
– Advance against Soult
– Passage of the Douro
– Expulsion of the French a Second Time from Portugal
CHAPTER VI – CAMPAIGN IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN 1809 SECOND PERIOD
– Advance into Spain
– Talavera
– Return to Portugal
CHAPTER VII – CAMPAIGN IN PORTUGAL 1810
– Massena Invades Portugal
– Busaco
– The Lines of Torres Verdas
CHAPTER VIII – CAMPAIGN IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN 1811 FIRST PERIOD
– Operations near Cadiz
– Barrosa
– Retreat of Massena from before the Lines of Torres Verdas
– Expulsion of the French from Portugal for the Third Time
CHAPTER IX – CAMPAIGN IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN 1811 SECOND PERIOD
– Blockade of Almeida
– Fuentes d’Onor
– Beresford’s Operations, Albuhera
– Engagements with Marmont, El Bodon and Aldea de Ponte
– Hill’s Operations, Arroyo dos Molinos
– Defence of Tarifa
CHAPTER X – CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN 1812 FIRST PERIOD
– Capture of Ciudad-Rodrigo and Badajoz
– Surprise of Almaraz
CHAPTER XI – CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN 1812 SECOND PERIOD
– Capture of Forts at Salamanca
– Battle of Salamanca
– Entry into Madrid
– Siege of Castle of Burgos
– Retreat from Burgos
CHAPTER XII CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN 1813
– Vittoria
– Battles of the Pyrenees
– Capture of St Sebastian
– Passage of the Bidassoa
– Fall of Pampeluna

Print size 21×29.7 cm to accommodate the oversized maps.

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