New Lights on the Peninsular War: International Congress on the Iberian Peninsula, Selected Papers, 1780-1840.

1993 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 546
Author(s):  
Jack Allen Meyer ◽  
Alice D. Berkeley
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Peninsular War

War and Politics in Spain, 1808–1814

1988 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Esdaile
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
John Moore

For most British readers, the Peninsular War is synonymous with the campaigns of Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington. That this should be the case is hardly surprising in view of the fascination which they have exercised for many historians at the expense of other aspects of the struggle. In defence of such anglocentrism, it might be argued that British involvement was the decisive factor in the war and, further, that without the duke of Wellington the Iberian Peninsula would never have been freed from French domination. That is true enough, but it is also true that Wellington could never have been successful but for the continued resistance of the Spaniards and the Portuguese. Indeed, it is fair to say that without the thousands of Portuguese soldiers who served in his army, and the indirect assistance provided by the Spaniards in pinning down a large proportion of the French forces, the Duke was so outnumbered that he could never have carried the war into Spain at all. Given that Wellington could probably have maintained a British presence in Portugal almost indefinitely, the Spanish contribution is of particular importance. While the British were still bottled up in Portugal during 1810 and 1811, however, the French all but destroyed the basis for Spanish resistance. Had not the Russian campaign intervened to divert Napoleon's attention eastwards, and with it the vital reinforcements that might have completed the French conquest, Spain could conceivably have been subdued. Wellington's victories of 1812 and 1813 would then have been an impossibility.

scholarly journals «The Peninsular War»: The Anglo-French confrontation in the Pyrenees during the Second Hundred Years’ War (1689–1815)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Dmitry O. Gordienko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Hundred Years War ◽  
Important Stage ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
Xix Century

The article shows the Anglo-French confrontation on the Iberian Peninsula as an important stage of the Second Hundred years’ War. The example of remote action of the British expeditionary force demonstrates the «English style» of war: the operation of army troops with the active support of the Royal Navy. The author comes to the conclusion that the Pyrenean wars of the beginning of the XIX century have a certain significance in the system of Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

scholarly journals Rozmówki polsko-hiszpańskie. Problemy językowe i próby ich przezwyciężenia podejmowane przez polskich uczestników hiszpańskiej wojny o niepodległość w świetle materiałów wspomnieniowych

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Magdalena Krzyżostaniak
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Language Transfer ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Efficient Communication ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
The Military ◽  
Grammatical Structures

The article presents selected mechanisms of communication between the Polish participants of the Napoleonic campaign in 1808–1812 and the local population behind the Pyrenees. The sources of information were the memoirs of Polish soldiers fighting on the Iberian Peninsula in the Grande Armée. Even though a significant part of the memoirs focuses on the military aspects of the participation of Poles in the Peninsular War, several do provide a whole spectrum of information about the daily lives of soldiers on foreign ground and many observations regarding the customs of their brothers in arms – mainly the French – as well as the local population. Among the fragments devoted to the non-military aspects of their stay on the Iberian Peninsula, the remarks on the attempts at communication – both verbal and non-verbal – between Poles and Spaniards seem to be particularly interesting. The purpose of this article is to explain why, in many situations, efficient communication could not take place in an intermediary language (French) and how the Polish soldiers dealt with lexical and grammatical structures in the previously unknown Spanish language. It is worth pointing out that language transfer is clearly noticeable – both from the native language of the soldiers (Polish) and from French, which most of Napoleonic soldiers learnt as their first Romance language.

Medical and logistics aspects of the Peninsular War, 1808-1814

2017 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
T Wardley ◽  
J Goacher ◽  
S Neep ◽  
S Fleet ◽  
R White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Medical Evacuation ◽  
British Trade ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
Medical Advances

AbstractFollowing the failure of the French maritime force at the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon sought to dominate Europe through his ‘Continental System’, using large, conscripted, land forces to control nation states and close European ports to British trade. To counter this denial of economic opportunity Britain deployed a large force to the Iberian Peninsula in 1808. Thus ensued the Peninsular War of 1808–14. This article discusses some of the medical advances identified from the war, including force health protection measures, surgical techniques and medical evacuation.

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