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Wellington's Eastern front : the campaigns on the East Coast of Spain 1810-1814 / Nick Lipscombe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2016Publisher: ©2016 Description: xiii, 241 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781473850712
  • 1473850711
Other title:
  • Campaigns on the East Coast of Spain 1810-1814
Subject(s):
Partial contents:
French invasion. Napoleon's objectives -- Suchet's baton -- Blake's collapse -- O'Donnell's miscalculation -- British intervention. Bentinck's vacillation -- Murray's arrival -- Murray's victory -- Wellington's memorandum -- Murray's expedition -- Bentinck's arrival -- Suchet's dilemma -- Observations and finale. Murray's tribunal -- Naval influence -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Commanders, troop organizations and strengths -- Appendix II: Notes on foreign units in British Service on the East Coast of Spain.
Summary: "At last, in this absorbing and authoritative study, the story of the epic struggle on Spain's eastern front during the Peninsular War has been told. Often overlooked as not integral to the Duke of Wellington's main army and their campaigns in Portugal and western Spain, they were, in point of fact, intrinsically linked. Nick Lipscombe, a leading historian of the Napoleonic Wars and an expert on the fighting in the Iberian peninsula, describes in graphic detail the battles fought by the French army of General Suchet against the Spanish regulars and guerrillas and subsequently the Anglo-Sicilian force sent by the British government to stabilize the region. Despite Suchet's initial successes and repeated setbacks for the allied armies, by late 1813 the east coast of Spain held a key to Wellington's invasion of France and the ultimate defeat of Napoleon's armies in the Peninsula. At a tactical level the allies were undeniably successful and made an important contribution to the eventual French defeat."--Publisher's description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A detailed, fast-moving account of the fighting in a neglected theatre of the Peninsular War.

At last, in this absorbing and authoritative study, the story of the epic struggle on Spain's eastern front during the Peninsular War has been told. Often overlooked as not integral to the Duke of Wellington's main army and their campaigns in Portugal and western Spain, they were, in point of fact, intrinsically linked.

Nick Lipscombe, a leading historian of the Napoleonic Wars and an expert on the fighting in the Iberian peninsula, describes in graphic detail the battles fought by the French army of General Suchet against the Spanish regulars and guerrillas and subsequently the Anglo-Sicilian force sent by the British government to stabilize the region.

Despite Suchet's initial successes and repeated setbacks for the allied armies, by late 1813 the east coast of Spain held a key to Wellington's invasion of France and the ultimate defeat of Napoleon's armies in the Peninsula. At a tactical level the allies were undeniably successful and made an important contribution to the eventual French defeat.

French invasion. Napoleon's objectives -- Suchet's baton -- Blake's collapse -- O'Donnell's miscalculation -- British intervention. Bentinck's vacillation -- Murray's arrival -- Murray's victory -- Wellington's memorandum -- Murray's expedition -- Bentinck's arrival -- Suchet's dilemma -- Observations and finale. Murray's tribunal -- Naval influence -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Commanders, troop organizations and strengths -- Appendix II: Notes on foreign units in British Service on the East Coast of Spain.

"At last, in this absorbing and authoritative study, the story of the epic struggle on Spain's eastern front during the Peninsular War has been told. Often overlooked as not integral to the Duke of Wellington's main army and their campaigns in Portugal and western Spain, they were, in point of fact, intrinsically linked. Nick Lipscombe, a leading historian of the Napoleonic Wars and an expert on the fighting in the Iberian peninsula, describes in graphic detail the battles fought by the French army of General Suchet against the Spanish regulars and guerrillas and subsequently the Anglo-Sicilian force sent by the British government to stabilize the region. Despite Suchet's initial successes and repeated setbacks for the allied armies, by late 1813 the east coast of Spain held a key to Wellington's invasion of France and the ultimate defeat of Napoleon's armies in the Peninsula. At a tactical level the allies were undeniably successful and made an important contribution to the eventual French defeat."--Publisher's description.

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