Wellington: A New BiographyA short biography of Wellington, the Iron Duke, one of the best known military commanders of British history. Covers not only Wellington the war hero and Waterloo, but also his political career and Wellington the ladies' man and his marriage to Kitty Pakenham. |
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... guns . Roliça might have been a desperate defeat ; Wellesley called it a desperate victory not the new way to drive the French out of the Peninsula . The Battle of Vimeiro was to be more like it , though Napoleon still noticed nothing ...
... guns . Roliça might have been a desperate defeat ; Wellesley called it a desperate victory not the new way to drive the French out of the Peninsula . The Battle of Vimeiro was to be more like it , though Napoleon still noticed nothing ...
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... guns was facing Napoleon's brother , King Joseph of Spain , his army of 57,000 and 80 guns . The two sides were drawn up before the town of Vitoria on its ten - mile diamond- shaped plain lying among hills and cut by the River Zadora ...
... guns was facing Napoleon's brother , King Joseph of Spain , his army of 57,000 and 80 guns . The two sides were drawn up before the town of Vitoria on its ten - mile diamond- shaped plain lying among hills and cut by the River Zadora ...
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... guns , ammunition , cavalry . But almost at once Picton's division had descended as it were from the clouds , followed by more and more godlike reinforcements , until the Allies had built up to 36,000 while Ney remained at 20,000 ...
... guns , ammunition , cavalry . But almost at once Picton's division had descended as it were from the clouds , followed by more and more godlike reinforcements , until the Allies had built up to 36,000 while Ney remained at 20,000 ...
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