Battle of Albuera 1811
On 16 May 1811 a combined British, Portuguese and Spanish force commanded by the British general Beresford met the French army under Soult at Albuera in southern Spain. What followed was one of the bloodiest and most controversial battles of the Peninsular War. Yet despite the battle's significance in the wider campaign to expel Napoleon's armies from Spain, the story of Albuera has rarely received the coverage accorded to other battles of the war. In this ground-breaking book, Michael Oliver and Richard Partridge seek to set the historical record straight. They examine the carnage of Albuera in unprecedented detail, and they give a lucid acc…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4738-1217-8
- EAN: 9781473812178
- Produktnummer: 22579502
- Verlag: Pen and Sword
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'840 KB
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