TY - BOOK AU - Lipscombe,Nick AU - Suchet,Louis-Gabriel TI - Wellington's Eastern front: the campaigns on the East Coast of Spain 1810-1814 SN - 9781473850712 PY - 2016/// CY - Barnsley PB - Pen & Sword Military KW - Suchet, Louis-Gabriel, KW - Napoleon KW - Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, KW - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 KW - Campaigns KW - British KW - French KW - Spanish KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 KW - Portugal KW - Great Britain KW - History, Military KW - 19th century N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -