The Peninsular War Atlas (Revised)
2nd Edition
Published on 20. September 2014
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-4728-0773-1 (ISBN)
Description
An updated and revised edition of Osprey's Atlas of the Peninsular War, featuring highly detailed mapping supported by an authoritative and fascinating text.
The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and sheer perseverance.
The British Army, under Sir John Moore and Wellington, ranged across the plains and mountains of Portugal and Spain and into France, taking part in 15 field actions and four bloody sieges, including Salamanca, Vitoria and Badajoz, but this is only part of the picture.
The contribution of the Spanish and Portuguese forces is frequently overlooked, but there were a further 25 field actions and 15 sieges in the Iberian peninsula as part of the savage duel between the French occupiers and native inhabitants.
In this revised edition, Colonel Nick Lipscombe expands upon his comprehensive, non-partisan examination of the conflict with 164 original maps, accompanied by an authoritative text narrating the war.
The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and sheer perseverance.
The British Army, under Sir John Moore and Wellington, ranged across the plains and mountains of Portugal and Spain and into France, taking part in 15 field actions and four bloody sieges, including Salamanca, Vitoria and Badajoz, but this is only part of the picture.
The contribution of the Spanish and Portuguese forces is frequently overlooked, but there were a further 25 field actions and 15 sieges in the Iberian peninsula as part of the savage duel between the French occupiers and native inhabitants.
In this revised edition, Colonel Nick Lipscombe expands upon his comprehensive, non-partisan examination of the conflict with 164 original maps, accompanied by an authoritative text narrating the war.
Reviews / Votes
This sensational, 384-page hardback book is handsomely presented in a slip-case. Overall this is an important and essential book for anyone interested in Napoleonic history. -- Toy Soldier & Model Figure '... a prodigious achievement ... I particularly admire the way [Lipscombe gives] such serious treatment to campaigns in which there was no British involvement, and to the relatively minor sieges whose details are usually so obscure. Overall, I do not believe that Lipscombe's effort will ever be surpassed.' -- Richard Holmes From Trevor James (Historical Association website and The Historian) A fascinating exercise in mapping. This is also a way to understand and value the emergence of the Duke of Wellington as a European military tactician. Clearly chronicled and explained. Extremely specialist piece of scholarship.More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
165 col
Dimensions
Height: 311 mm
Width: 259 mm
Thickness: 55 mm
Weight
2858 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4728-0773-1 (9781472807731)
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The Peninsular War Atlas
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Person
Colonel Nick Lipscombe was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He has a degree in business studies and an MSc in defence studies. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1980. During his thirty years in the British Army he has seen considerable operational service with the British and American armies, as well as with NATO and the UN. He was awarded the US Bronze Star in 2006. A keen interest in military history followed his academic studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst concentrating on the Napoleonic era and the Peninsular War in particular. He is Chairman of Peninsular War 200, the UK official organisation for the commemoration of the bicentenary of the Peninsular War.
Content
Foreword by The Duke of Wellington
Preface
Chronology
Introduction by Professor Charles Esdaile
Legend
Junot's Invasion of Portugal
The Road to War - The First Six Months of 1808
The Spanish Backlash and the French Response: May-June 1808
The First Siege of Zaragoza, 15 June-14 August 1808
Operations in the North: The Battle of Medina de Rioseco
Capitulation at Bailen: The Greatest Spanish Victory of the War
French Failures and British Intervention
The Liberation of Portugal
Strategic Manoeuvring: September to October 1808
Napoleonic Intervention: November 1808
Napoleon enters Madrid and Moore enters Spain
The Campaign in Catalonia: autumn 1808
Isolation and Retreat: December 1808 to January 1809
Napoleon Departs for France: the Situation in Early 1809
Continued French Success: February and March 1908
The Second French Invasion of Portugal: January to March 1809
Wellesley Returns
Suchet: An Inauspicious Start
The Talavera Campaign: May to July 1809
The End of the Talavera Campaign: August 1809
The Disastrous Autumn Campaign: 1809
The Capture of Girona: May to December 1809
Subjugation of Andalusia: January to February 1810
Aragon and the East Coast: January to May 1810
1810: The Year of Sieges
The Third French Invasion of Portugal
The Lines of Torres Vedras
Offensive on the East Coast: Tortosa
Soult's Invasion of Estremadura: January to March 1811
The South of Spain: January to March 1811
Massena: Retreat and Demise, March to May 1811
The Allied Campaign in Estremadura: March to August 1811
The Watershed: mid-1811
Figueras & Tarragona: The East Coast, April to August 1811
Border Skirmishes: June to September 1811
The Conquest of Valencia: September 1811 to January 1812
The Culmination of a Year of Mixed Fortunes: December 1811
Capturing the 'Keys to Spain': January to April 1812
The Salamanca Campaign: Opening Moves, June and July 1812
The Battle of Salamanca (Los Arapiles): 22 July 1812
Suchet's Consolidation on the East Coast: January to July 1812
After Salamanca: July to August 1812
Failure, Humiliation and Retreat: September to November 1812
Prologue to Vitoria: January to May 1813
Operations on the East Coast: Late 1812 to April 1813
Victory Over King Joseph: The Vitoria Campaign, May to June 1813
While Wellington Waits, Soult Takes the Initiative: July 1813
The Battle of the Pyrenees: 25 July to 1 August 1813
The East Coast: May to September 1813
The Fall of San Sebastian: August and September 1813
The Allies Enter France: October 1813
To the Gates of Bayonne: October to December 1813
Respite Precedes the Storm: December 1813 to February 1814
Final Confrontation ~ March and April 1814
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Preface
Chronology
Introduction by Professor Charles Esdaile
Legend
Junot's Invasion of Portugal
The Road to War - The First Six Months of 1808
The Spanish Backlash and the French Response: May-June 1808
The First Siege of Zaragoza, 15 June-14 August 1808
Operations in the North: The Battle of Medina de Rioseco
Capitulation at Bailen: The Greatest Spanish Victory of the War
French Failures and British Intervention
The Liberation of Portugal
Strategic Manoeuvring: September to October 1808
Napoleonic Intervention: November 1808
Napoleon enters Madrid and Moore enters Spain
The Campaign in Catalonia: autumn 1808
Isolation and Retreat: December 1808 to January 1809
Napoleon Departs for France: the Situation in Early 1809
Continued French Success: February and March 1908
The Second French Invasion of Portugal: January to March 1809
Wellesley Returns
Suchet: An Inauspicious Start
The Talavera Campaign: May to July 1809
The End of the Talavera Campaign: August 1809
The Disastrous Autumn Campaign: 1809
The Capture of Girona: May to December 1809
Subjugation of Andalusia: January to February 1810
Aragon and the East Coast: January to May 1810
1810: The Year of Sieges
The Third French Invasion of Portugal
The Lines of Torres Vedras
Offensive on the East Coast: Tortosa
Soult's Invasion of Estremadura: January to March 1811
The South of Spain: January to March 1811
Massena: Retreat and Demise, March to May 1811
The Allied Campaign in Estremadura: March to August 1811
The Watershed: mid-1811
Figueras & Tarragona: The East Coast, April to August 1811
Border Skirmishes: June to September 1811
The Conquest of Valencia: September 1811 to January 1812
The Culmination of a Year of Mixed Fortunes: December 1811
Capturing the 'Keys to Spain': January to April 1812
The Salamanca Campaign: Opening Moves, June and July 1812
The Battle of Salamanca (Los Arapiles): 22 July 1812
Suchet's Consolidation on the East Coast: January to July 1812
After Salamanca: July to August 1812
Failure, Humiliation and Retreat: September to November 1812
Prologue to Vitoria: January to May 1813
Operations on the East Coast: Late 1812 to April 1813
Victory Over King Joseph: The Vitoria Campaign, May to June 1813
While Wellington Waits, Soult Takes the Initiative: July 1813
The Battle of the Pyrenees: 25 July to 1 August 1813
The East Coast: May to September 1813
The Fall of San Sebastian: August and September 1813
The Allies Enter France: October 1813
To the Gates of Bayonne: October to December 1813
Respite Precedes the Storm: December 1813 to February 1814
Final Confrontation ~ March and April 1814
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography