Napoleon's Vietnam: Spain 1809 - 1811
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by Super User, 5 years ago
In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had inflicted several heavy defeats on Spanish field armies, 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 ulcer', or his Vietnam, costing his empire nearly quarter of a million soldiers, in a war that looked increasingly unwinnable.
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? Talavera 1809: Wellington's Lightning Strike into Spain https://geni.us/bK3AfvP
? The Lines of Torres Vedras https://geni.us/tqt7fu
? Bussaco 1810: Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals https://geni.us/UgYXF0x
? Fuentes de Oñoro 1811: Wellington's Liberation of Portugal https://geni.us/zFujTEN
? The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars https://geni.us/U43W
Andrew Roberts' highly readable recent Napoleon biography:
? Napoleon the Great http://geni.us/NqMW
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? The Peninsular War https://geni.us/xAac
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