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Peninsular War
Peninsular War (1808–14) Campaign of the
Napoleonic Wars in Portugal and Spain. It began as a popular revolt in Spain against
Napoleon I's imposition of his brother, Joseph
Bonaparte, as king of Spain. It flared into a bloody guerrilla war and British troops, led by the future Duke of
Wellington, landed in Portugal to support the expulsion of the French (August 1808). The major turning point was the repulsion of Massena's offensive aganist Lisbon (1810–11). Wellington's forces then gradually drove the French from the Iberian peninsula and, after the victory of Vitoria (1813), invaded
s France. Napoleon's abdication (1814) brought the campaign to an end.
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 "Portadown Times (Portadown, Northern Ireland)")
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Book that tells of Tandragee heroes from the Peninsular Wars to Iraq.
Newspaper article from: Portadown Times (Portadown, Northern Ireland); 4/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...connections with the Peninsular Wars, Waterloo, Crimea...Campaign, the Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, Kenya, Suez, the...wounded during the Peninsular wars and twice wounded...side at the American War of Independence...
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Surviving the Peninsular War in Australia: Juan De Arrieta--Spanish free settler and colonial gentleman.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...political context created by the Peninsular War and which influenced the circumstances...the Europe-wide Napoleonic Wars, the Peninsular War, was fought in Spain and Portugal...into Southern France. The Peninsular War was important in bringing...
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The Peninsular War: a New History.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Peninsular War: A New History, by Charles Esdaile...suggests, Charles Esdaile's The Peninsular War. A New History is a revisionist...hitherto unseen in the study of the Peninsular War. From the very beginning, in...
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Charles Oman's `A History of The Peninsular War'
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 2/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...substantial examination of the Peninsular conflict composed in English...made to the prosecution of the war against Napoleon. Indeed...concerns such emotive events as wars. Some present-day authors...produce a new account of the Peninsular War `when Napier's great work...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Spanish lessons; Against Napoleon in Spain.('The Peninsular War: A New History')(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 10/5/2002; 658 words
; ...culture and politics of the war, but he relies overly...won by the allies,the war emerges as lost by the...French strength. The Peninsular campaign was to the Napoleonic wars what north Africa was to the second world war--an arena of British...never invade Russia. The Peninsular ...
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The Subaltern: A Chronicle of the Peninsular War / Voices from the Peninsula: Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington's Army 1808-14 / The Battle of Maida 1806: Fifteen Minutes of Glory
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Peninsular Wars The Subaltern: A Chronicle of the Peninsular War, by George Robert Gleig...officer of the Napoleonic Wars who later hung up his uniform...already been published. If the Peninsular War is your thing, you will...
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The Peninsular War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 475 words
; 1857533291 The Peninsular War. Haythornthwaite, Philip...history of the Napoleonic War, and has written some...historians which divides the wars and campaigns into thematic...and losses; table of Peninsular War causalities; measurements...
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Galloping at Everything: The British Cavalry in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo 1808-15: A Reappraisal
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 8/1/2000; ; 673 words
; ...GALLOPING AT EVERYTHING: THE BRITISH CAVALRY IN THE PENINSULAR WAR AND AT WATERLOO 1808-15: A REAPPRAISAL by Ian Fletcher...00, 301 pages The three great historians of the Peninsular War, Napier, Oman and Fortescue, differ from each other...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Experts stage Peninsular War re-enactment.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 8/23/2004; 333 words
; ...played host to an re-enactment of life during the Peninsular War. ``Living history'' group First in the Field...period costumes, furniture and weapons. '' The Peninsular War, from 1808-1814, was part of the struggle against...
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Deputy Defense Secretary Praises UAE's War Support, Warns Against Blocking Port Deal.(Gordon England on the acquisition of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. by Dubai Ports World)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 2/24/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...with a key Arab ally. "They stand side by side with us in the war on terrorism," England said at a Senate Armed Services Committee...airspace, and offers other logistical support for the ongoing wars with Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress has voiced concern over...defended UAE as well and said they had played a ...
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Peninsular War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peninsular War 1808-14, fought by France against Great Britain...1814, news of Napoleon's abdication arrived; the Peninsular War was ended. Results of the War The Peninsular War immeasurably raised Britain's military prestige...
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The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...Warehousing and Storage The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation...take sides in the 1833 civil war in Portugal and shortly afterward...attempted in 1834 to float the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company but...under its present name of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation...
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The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (Bovis Division)
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation...the years following World War I energetic management and...leading to a takeover by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation...company at the end of World War I. He redesigned the name...
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Peninsular Campaign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN (1862), an advance against Richmond, began on 4 April 1862, when Maj. Gen...Campaign of 1862. New York: Scribners 1881. Edwin H. Blanchard / a. r. See also Civil War ; Seven Days' Battles .
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Peninsular campaign
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peninsular campaign in the American Civil War, the unsuccessful Union attempt (Apr.-July, 1862) to capture Richmond, Va., by way of the peninsula between the York...
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