Wellington at War in the Peninsula - Ian C. Robertson - Softcover 35+ with a shorter section describing

with a shorter section describing combat against the Americans in the Vosges and in the Saar-Moselle triangle

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and led to shifts in the balance of power that would have significant effects on the Seven Years War

the complex social mores of Victorian society

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Wellington at War in the Peninsula - Ian C. Robertson - Softcover 35+ with a shorter section describingBy any standards, the seven year land campaign centered on the Iberian Peninsula between Napoleons French armies and Britain and her Portuguese ally was as dramatic as it was prolonged. While the Napoleonic Wars came to their historic climax at Waterloo in June 1815, the scene was set by the events of the Peninsular War. In Wellington at War in the Peninsula, experienced historian and travel writer Ian Robertson describes the flow of the campaign