SPANISH ULCER CL by Gates

SPANISH ULCER CL by Gates

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.

Gates, David: - David Gates is Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies at the University of Lancaster and the author of The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War (1986), Non-offensive Defence (1991) and Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (1998).

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ISBN 13	9780393022810
ISBN 10	0393022811
Title	SPANISH ULCER CL
Author	Gates
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	1986-04-17
Number of pages	557
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