but now they faced a popular insurgency as well as a well-trained Anglo-Portuguese army led by British general Lord Wellington. The Peninsular War, as it became known, became Napoleon's 'bleeding ...

With the might of Napoleon's army at its throat, Sweden was forced to declare war on Britain and fired on British ships. Saumarez worked with the Swedish forces to perpetuate the appearance that ...

Mikaberidze naturally covers the various “coalitions” that Britain put together to counter French ambitions, in the process giving us looks at the changing political, economic, and military situations ...

$62.95. ISBN: 1848329539 The ’God of War’ in the Napoleonic Era Although concentrating on the period 1792-1815, in this excellent reference Kiley, author of several works on the Napoleonic era, ...