Название: The Lines of Torres Vedras: The Cornerstone of Wellington's Strategy in the Peninsular War 1809-12 (The Napoleonic Library)
Автор: John Grehan
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 14,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1809 French armies controlled almost every province of Spain and only Wellington’s small force in Portugal stood between Napoleon and the conquest of Iberia. The French invaded Portugal in the summer of 1810, but found their way blocked by the most extensive field fortifications the world had ever seen—the Lines of Torres Vedras.