Hayes - Weapons 1

It was the Battle of Vimeiro that established the reputation of Sir Arthur Wellesley, later to be the Duke of Wellington. This book forms part of the Bretwalda Battles series on The Peninsular War. ……続きを見る

At Gerona in 1808 the French for the first time ran into a Spanish army that neither ran away nor surrendered. The epic defence of Gerona lasted for over a year and saw the French throw everything t……続きを見る

Key note: The Battle of Albuera was one of the bloodiest, and yet least decisive of the battles fought in the Peninsular War. In the spring of 1811, the French armies in Portgual were in headlong re……続きを見る

The Retreat to Corunna was a spectacular defeat for the British Army, yet it managed to save its reputation by carrying out one of the great fighting retreats of military history. In 1808 a British ……続きを見る

The Battle of Barrosa was an unexpected British victory in the Peninsular War. Caught strung out on the march on a mountain road by a superior French army, the British should have been annihilated, ……続きを見る

For six weeks in the spring of 1812 Wellingston's Anglo-Spanish army marched and countermarched across western Spain as it sought to find away past the French army of Marshal Marmont. Their chance c……続きを見る

By the summer of 1813 the Peninsular War had reached a crisis. The Port of San Sebastian had to be captured, and captured fast if Wellington's British armies were to avoid a humiliating retreat due ……続きを見る

The Battle of Oporto was key early British victory in the Peninsular War that ensured that the troops commanded by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) would not be driven out by the Fren……続きを見る

The Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo was a savage affair, fought as part of the Peninsular War that pitched Britain's Duke of Wellington against Napoleon's French Marshals. The fortress city of Ciudad Rodgri……続きを見る