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In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had inflicted several heavy defeats on Spanish field armies, but now they faced a popular insurgency as well as a well-trained Anglo-Portuguese army led by British general Lord Wellington. The Peninsular War, as it became known, became Napoleon’s ‘bleeding ulcer’, or his Vietnam, costing his empire nearly quarter of a million soldiers, in a war that looked increasingly unwinnable.
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Some great books about the Peninsular War from our partner Osprey Publishing
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π The Peninsular War Atlas:
π Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War
π Talavera 1809: Wellington’s Lightning Strike into Spain
π The Lines of Torres Vedras
π Bussaco 1810: Wellington Defeats Napoleon’s Marshals
π Fuentes de OΓ±oro 1811: Wellington’s Liberation of Portugal
Andrew Roberts’ highly readable recent Napoleon biography:
π Napoleon the Great
And perhaps the best recent history of the Peninsular War by Prof Charles Esdaile
π The Peninsular War
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