History Of The War In The Peninsular And In The South Of France, From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814 – Vol. VI
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History Of The War In The Peninsular And In The South Of France, From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814 – Vol. VI
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A masterful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and played a pivotal role in the end of his domination of Europe.The author served with distinction in the actions of the Light Division, such as the epic march to Talavera, the battles of Fuentes d'Oñoro, Salamanca, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse. He left the service a General and Knight Commander of the Order of Bath. Napier's History would rank as the most important history to be written by an actual participant, and was as controversial with his countrymen as amoung his contemporaries on the Continent.In Napier's concluding volume [End of 1813 – April 1814], he chronicles the last says of the first reign of Napoleon as Wellington forcefully shifts Marshal Soult from each position and passes each defensive line with great skill. Despite the successful battle of Orthez (or Orthes), Wellington is beset with problems, he has to dispense of the services of his Spanish allies, whose looting has become a liability, along with the millstone of their internal power struggle between Ferdinand, recently released by Napoleon to sow discord, and the ruling classes. Stripped of a large part of his manpower, he pushes onward, Wellington fights the controversial battle of Toulouse and in spite of mistimed attacks, and one of his best generals dis-obeying orders he pushes Soult further back into France. The timing of news of the abdication of Napoleon from Paris is the subject to much debate and is weighed by Napier in favour of Soult, and with the final action of the war, the sally from Bayonne the hostilities come to and end until the Hundred Days.Also included in this volume but missing from the earlier editions are his defences, ripostes and counters to the carping and criticism of his initial publications, much of it emanating from Marshal Beresford stung by Napier's harsh judgement of the battle of Albuera
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BOOK THE TWENTY-THIRD.
- BOOK THE TWENTY-FOURTH.
- APPENDIX.
- CONTROVERSIAL PIECES.
- A Reply to Lord Strangford’s Observations, &.
- A Reply to Various Opponents, with Observations illustrating Sir J. Moore’s campaigns
- Sequel of Napier’s Reply to Various Opponents, containing some new and curious facts relating to the battle of Albuera
- A Letter to general Lord viscount Beresford, being an answer to his Lordship’s assumed Refutation of colonel Napier’s Justification of his Third Volume
- Answer to the Quarterly Review
- Reply to the Third Article in the Quarterly Review
- Remarks on Robinson’s Life of Picton
- Counter-remarks to Mr. Dudley Montagu Perceval’s Remarks