In this video, we chart the Peninsular War (1808–1814), when Spain, Portugal, and Britain resisted Napoleon’s occupation. With Google Earth, we trace key campaigns from the guerrilla uprisings to ...

The English troops were welcomed when they landed in Portugal. Their commander Sir Arthur Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, defeated Junot's dispersed army at Cintra on August 30, 1808 ...

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, published continually since 1872, comprises the papers read before the leading learned society for historians in the United Kingdom. The papers cover ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. x, 302. Illus., maps, diagr., side bars, append., notes, index. . $42.95. ISBN: 152675732X British ...

This book has an interesting genealogy. The Duke of Wellington never actually wrote a history of the Peninsular War, indeed he refused to do so. But during the war churned out a lot what we today call ...

The Peninsular War was one of the longest and most drawn-out campaigns of the Napoleonic War; a piece of Imperial regime change designed to close off the last European ports open to British trade, ...

The second title covering the "Spanish Ulcer", covers all the major actions not covered in Bonaparte's Peninsular War and quite a few minor ones as well. Wellington's Peninsular Campaign focuses on ...

Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French troops ...