Book Description
This book was originally prepared on behalf of the Directorate of Military Training to be used as a text for officers’ study courses. It covers the rise of Napoleon to the battle of Toulouse and the end of the war.
Author : D.J. Goodspeed
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623567
This book was originally prepared on behalf of the Directorate of Military Training to be used as a text for officers’ study courses. It covers the rise of Napoleon to the battle of Toulouse and the end of the war.
Author : Charles Walker Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
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Author : Charles Walker Robinson
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104254131
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Michael Glover
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Alexander Innes Shand
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN :
Author : Joshua Moon
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0806186100
Sir Arthur Wellesley's 1808–1814 campaigns against Napoleon's forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington's Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington's command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion. In this detailed and accessible account, Moon traces Wellington's command of British forces during the six years of warfare against the French. Almost immediately upon landing in Portugal in 1808, Wellington was hampered by his government's struggle to plan a strategy for victory. From that point on, Moon argues, the military's outdated promotion system, political maneuvering, and bureaucratic inertia—all subject to public opinion and a hostile press—thwarted Wellington's efforts, almost costing him the victory. Drawing on archival sources in the United Kingdom and at the United States Military Academy, Moon goes well beyond detailing military operations to delve into the larger effects of domestic policies, bureaucracy, and coalition building on strategy. Ultimately, Moon shows, the second front of Wellington's "two-front war" was as difficult as the better-known struggle against Napoleon's troops and harsh conditions abroad. As this book demonstrates, it was only through strategic vision and relentless determination that Wellington attained the hard-fought victory. Moon's multifaceted examination of the commander and his frustrations offers valuable insight into the complexities of fighting faraway battles under the scrutiny at home of government agencies and the press—issues still relevant today.
Author : Canada. Canadian Army. Directorate of Military Training
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Michael Glover
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : 9780141390413
This volume provides a fascinating insight into what it was like to march and fight, to eat and be wounded, to command and be commanded at the start of the 19th century. Stress is laid on the technological limitations of warfare at that time.
Author : Paul C. Krajeski
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Amphibious warfare
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Author : Jac Weller
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This classic account of Wellington s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War is one of the best single-volume works ever written on the epic campaign. Jac Weller covers all the battles with the French in which Wellington was involved. Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are among the famous battles that he brings to life once more, with the aid of meticulous research, extensive visits to and photographs of the battlefields themselves, and an unwavering ability to cut a clear path through tangled military events. Wellington in the Peninsula brilliantly demonstrates how a great commander finally achieved victory after six years of battle against Napoleon s army."