Salamanca - The Peninsula Series
Posted on Tuesday 24th July 2012
Taking it Further
Salamanca
(DVD)
ISBN: 5060247620183
Only £12.99 RRP £16.99
Since his return to the Iberian Peninsula in 1809, General Arthur Wellesley (later The Duke of Wellington) had with his small army been a constant thorn in the side of a series of Napoleon's Marshals in Spain, studiously avoiding battles that he could not win and falling back before superior forces to the Lines of Torres Vedras in 1810. By 1812 he had forged a successful Anglo Portuguese Army with a string of victories to their credit that included Talavera, Bussaco and Fuentes de Onoro.
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