Spanish Army of the Napoleonic Wars by Rene Chartrand, René Chartrand, Bill Younghusband

By Rene Chartrand, René Chartrand, Bill Younghusband

This quantity – masking the ultimate years of the Peninsular conflict and the lengthy trek over the Pyrenees into France – concludes the author’s outstanding in-depth examine of the military that fought along Wellington’s redcoats during the Peninsular warfare. ahead of 1813 it was once the Spanish armies that bore the brunt of the combating and this article – in keeping with fundamental study in Spanish and British information that allows you to be new to such a lot readers – fills a wide and long-standing hole in our wisdom of these Napoleonic campaigns that have consistently interested English-speaking scholars of the interval.

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From December 1808 steps were taken to organize for Joseph a 'Spanish' army along French lines. French offIcers anri men were u"ansfelTcrl to the new force, and Napoleon made sure that the most senior regimenLS of his brouler's Guard were French. Recruiting Spaniards to serve ule French cause was no eas)' task. The eRective strength of Joseph's army is open to conjecture, estimates \'LlI),jng from less than 6,000 to over 17,000 men. Of these, abo lit half were actually French or of other nationalities; most of the res!

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