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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 Justification, &c., &c.; Book IX: 1. Inactivity of the Austrians and Gallicians; 2. Continuation of the operations in Catalonia; 3. Claros and Rovira attack Bascara and spread dismay along the French frontier; 4. Plot at Seville against the Supreme Junta defeated by Lord Wellesley; 5. Areizaga takes the command of Eguia's army and is ordered to advance against Madrid; 6. King Joseph's return to Madrid; Book X: 1. Joseph prepares to invade Andalusia; 2. Operations in Navarre, Aragon, and Valencia; 3. Suchet marches against Lerida; 4. Reflections on that act; 5. Operations in Andalusia; 6. Continuation of the operations in Andalusia; 7. Situation of the armies north of the Tagus; Book XI: 1. Lord Wellington's policy; 2. Greatness of Lord Wellington's plans; 3. Lord Wellington's scheme for the defence of Portugal; 4. Character of Miguel Alava; 5. Slight operations in Gallicia, Castile, the Asturias, Estremadura, and Andalusia; 6. Third invasion of Portugal; 7. General Pack destroys the bridges on the Criz and Dao; 8. Massena resumes his march; 9. State of Lisbon; 10. Massena's pertinacity; Book XII: 1. General sketch of the state of the war; 2. Soult assumes the direction of the blockade of Cadiz; 3. Siege of Badajos continued; 4. Allies halt for provisions; 5. Estimate of the French loss; 6. Lord Wellington quits the army of Beira; 7. Continuation of the battle of Albuera; Papers relating to the former volumes; Appendix.
