(Library ebook) Wellington Against Junot: The First Invasion of Portugal 1807-1808
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| #4554477 in Books | 2011-07-12 | 2011-07-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.10 x6.10l,1.26 | File Name: 1848841426 | 224 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The First Invasion...|By HMS Warspite|David Buttery's 2011 "Wellington against Junot" re-examines an often overlooked phase of the Peninsular War, the initial French invasion of Portugal and the British response. A French Army under General Junot occupied Lisbon in 1807, gaining a tenuous control over Portugal. The arrival in 1808 of a British expeditionary force under the y|About the Author|David Buttery has established a reputation as a leading historian of nineteenth-century British military history. He has made a particular study of the Napoleonic and Crimean wars. He has worked in newspapers and museums and has published exten
The first French invasion of Portugal in 1807 - which was commanded by Junot, one of Napoleon's most experienced generals - was a key event in the long, brutal Peninsular War. It was the first campaign fought in the Peninsular by Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, yet it tends to be overshadowed by more famous episodes in the six-year conflict that followed. David Buttery, in this original and perceptive new study, sets the record straight - his tightly fo...
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