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Klappentext This classic history of the Peninsular War was first published by a participant, Lieutenant-Colonel Napier, between 1828 and 1840. Zusammenfassung Published between 1828 and 1840! Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula was a tremendously influential! if controversial! work. He had access to many of the participants! or their papers! including French ones. The work was both highly praised and criticised. Although biased! it remains an important eyewitness source. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notice; Answer to Robinson's Life of Picton; Answer to the Quarterly Review; Counter-remarks, &c.; Book XVII: 1. Summary of the political state of affairs; 2. Progress of the war in different parts of Spain; 3. Operations in Valencia and Murcia; 4. Operations in Andalusia and Estremadura; 5. Political situation of France; 6. Political state of Portugal; Book XVIII: 1. Numbers of the French in the Peninsula shewn; 2. Campaign of 1812; 3. Bonet arrives in the French camp; 4. Clauzel passes the Tormes at Alba; Book XIX: 1. State of the war; 2. Operations in Andalusia; 3. Wellington's combinations described; 4. State of the war in various parts of Spain; 5. The king and Soult advance from Valencia to the Tagus; 6. Continuation of the Partizan warfare; 7. General observations; Book XX: 1. Political affairs; 2. Political state of Portugal; 3. Napoleon's embarrassed position; 4. Operations south of the Tagus; 5. Operations north of the Tagus; 6. Wellington restores the discipline of the allied army; 7. Dangerous discontent of the Portuguese army; 8. Confused state of the French in the basin of Vittoria; Appendix.
