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      Military HistorySiege WarfareDuke of WellingtonPeninsular War
See Review by Robert Burnham
http://napoleon-series.org/reviews/military/c_GermanDivision.html
262 pages. 17 color uniform plates. 11 color maps. 11 black and white maps.
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      Military HistorySpanish HistoryHistory Portuguese and SpanishNapoleonic Wars
A lo largo de las legislaturas de 1820 y 1821 las Cortes españolas trataron cuatro importantes temas de carácter monetario, que fueron el diseño de la nueva moneda constitucional basada en el real de vellón, la conversión de las cecas en... more
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      NumismaticsNumismatiqueNumismaticaPeninsular War
A review of an Italian film about the life and work of the Spanish painter Goya.
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      Spanish HistoryItalian CinemaIndividualismImages of Women in Popular Media
El libro se centra en un cuerpo defensivo propio del Principado de Asturias y de carácter popular, creado en los inicios del levantamiento contra las fuerzas napoleónicas. En él, utilizando fuentes de primera mano y testimonios de los... more
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      AsturiasParticipación ciudadanaPeninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia Española
The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often seen from a strategic point of view, or in terms of military organization and battlefield tactics, or through officers’ memoirs. It is rarely seen from the perspective of the lowest ranks of... more
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      Military HistoryFrench HistoryFrench StudiesGender
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      Art HistoryWar StudiesPaintingSpanish History
En Abril de 1812, entre los 16.000 aliados que cercaban Badajoz, se encontraban 6.200 portugueses listos para el combate. En la región más extensa entre el Alentejo y la Extremadura española se encontraban 51.000 aliados, de los cuales... more
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      Military HistoryNapoleonic WarsHistoria MilitarPeninsular War
Jeremiah Fitzhenry, Wexford rebel and commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Legion/Regiment, was captured by Spanish irregulars in 1811. Later it was discovered he had defected to Wellington. Accorded a free pardon by the British... more
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      Duke of WellingtonPeninsular WarIrish LegionIrish troops in the British army 1800-15
Tom Duggett’s Gothic Romanticism is a compellingly ambitious study of the pursuit of a purer and better gothic in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. Focusing on Wordsworth and the Lake Poets’ attempt to refine a... more
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      RomanticismGothic LiteratureGothic StudiesWilliam Wordsworth
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      Military HistoryPeninsular WarLeiria
Sièges de Saragosse fue, por lo tanto, la obra con la que en 1840 Louis-François Lejeune se inicia en el sendero del género autobiográfico. Para él escribir era otra forma de pintar. Lo explica ya en el subtítulo de la obra afirmando que... more
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      Napoleonic WarsNapoleonic EuropePeninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia Española
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      Peninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia EspañolaTalavera De La ReinaGuerra De Independencia En Castilla La Mancha
Resumen: Este artículo sintetiza uno de los capítulos de la Tesis doctoral del autor: El Ejército del Centro en la provincia de Castellón. Historia militar y arqueología de los campos de batalla, en la Primera Guerra Carlista,... more
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      Arms and Armor StudiesBattlefield ArchaeologyBattlefield Heritage Management and Metal DetectingArqueología histórica
This is a biography of a Nova-Scotian black soldier who served in the British Army during the Napoleonic War, and later settled in Liverpool when working as a sailor. It will be source led in format, and comments from myself will be... more
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      African StudiesCanadian HistoryMaritime HistoryAfrican Diaspora Studies
Resumen: Este artículo estudia los orígenes y la evolución de la propaganda centrada en Juan Martín Díez, " el Empecinado " , durante la guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). Durante la invasión francesa de España, el Empecinado pasó de... more
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      JournalismPropagandaWar StudiesNational Heroes
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      Visual propagandaPrints (Art History)Peninsular WarRepresentation of War
In 1810 Wellington wanted to assure that Portugal could be defended, the Anglo-Portuguese Army’ “Sanctuary”. Napoleon Bonaparte decided to try, for the third time, to conquer Portugal sending his best and biggest Peninsular Army under the... more
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      Military HistoryNapoleonic WarsHistoria MilitarPeninsular War
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      Art HistoryBiographyHistory of Art18th Century Spain
Thomas Staunton St. Clair (1785-1847) was born in Gibraltar into a military family. He embarked for Portugal during the Peninsular War, having successfully obtained a transfer to the Portuguese Army as a Major in the 21st Infantry... more
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      BiographyMemoir and AutobiographyWatercolorsPrints and Drawings
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was common for British Army regiments to recruit black males to serve as enlisted military musicians. The Irish regiments of the British Army similarly engaged in the practice, and this study... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesBlack/African DiasporaAfrican HistoryIrish History
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      Historia De AmericaHistoria MilitarPeninsular WarExtremadura
Contributo para o estudo dos botões de uniforme militar à época da Guerra Peninsular resultante das invasões francesas (1807-1814). O autor pretende dar a conhecer botões das quatro nações envolvidas no conflito – Portugal, Reino Unido,... more
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      ArchaeologyNapoleonic WarsPeninsular War18th Century Personla Items. 18th Century Shoe, Knee, Stock Buckles and Military Buttons.
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      Military HistorySpanish HistoryNapoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and Napoleon
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      Military HistorySpanish HistoryNapoleonic WarsFrench Revolution and Napoleon
Trabalho final da cadeira Temas da Arte em Portugal da Pós Graduação em Mercados da Arte e Colecionismo da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2018.
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      Portuguese and Brazilian LiteratureArt HistoryPaintingPortraiture
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      ArchaeologyModern conflict archaeologyFortificationsPeninsular War
The second half of the 18th century saw the formation of the first establishments to provide formal training to officers prior to receiving their first commission. The first school, the Royal Military Academy, was formed in 1741 by the... more
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      Telegraph (History of Technology)History of military EngineeringPeninsular WarNineteenth-Century British Army
Em Julho de 1810, com o objetivo de expulsar os britânicos da Península, inicia-se a terceira invasão de Portugal por forças napoleónicas (1810-1811), pela região de Almeida. Depois de conquistarem a fortaleza, em Agosto, o “Exército de... more
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      Portuguese HistoryNapoleonic WarsPeninsular WarVictor Masséna prince d'Essling
Os exércitos aliados, português e britânico, que participaram na designada Guerra Peninsular, entre 1809 e 1814, eram autónomos mas interdependentes, atingindo um nível de proficiência e trabalho em conjunto absolutamente ímpar até então.... more
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      Portugal (History)British Military HistoryHistoria MilitarDuke of Wellington
Westminster History Review 5. J.Barber and J.Sargent (eds.), (City of Westminster Archives Centre, London, 2007). William Afflick was one of the 10th Hussars’ most decorated enlisted veterans of the Napoleonic Wars. He also happened to... more
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      African StudiesBlack/African DiasporaAfrican Diaspora StudiesCaribbean History
The unfortunate Germans who were thrown into the mincing machine of Catalonia and, in particular, the worst-managed operations of the entire Peninsular War: the French sieges of Girona. This city became the grave of almost the entire... more
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      Military HistorySpanish HistoryHistory Portuguese and SpanishNapoleonic Wars
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      Print CultureWar StudiesNapoleonic WarsHistoria del Arte
«Paz y capitulación» solicitó el general francés Verdier en agosto de 1808 cuando sitió a las tropas aragonesas en Zaragoza. «Guerra y cuchillo» fue la respuesta que recibió por parte de los defensores. La historia convirtió a la ciudad... more
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      Peninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia Española1808Sitios De Zaragoza
ABSTRACT in English (résumé en français ci-après): This article (as all my other articles on Clausewitz) isn’t a discussion “around” the thoughts of Clausewitz, which would be first based on Clausewitz – an attractive name! – in order to... more
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      Military HistoryGerman StudiesMilitary ScienceSpecial Operations And Low Intensity Conflict
During its long history, Portugal has endured all types of war, including wars to maintain its independence. These wars at times were concentrated in one region and at others spread across the globe. The “First Portuguese Global War”,... more
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      Military HistoryNapoleonic WarsPeninsular War
As milícias e ordenanças em Portugal são uma história “de sucesso” difícil de comparar com outras estruturas existentes nos restantes países de então. E podemos acrescentar que nessa época, que o seu desempenho tem algo incrível, talvez... more
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      Military HistoryHistoria MilitarPeninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia Española
So far Ken Trotman have published six volumes of 22 memoirs edited by Gareth Glover that focus upon the Peninsular War.
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      Military HistoryNapoleonic WarsPeninsular Spanish LiteratureMemoir and Autobiography
This paper combines a very short history of the Anhalt Principalities and 29 biographies of the Dukes, Princes and other officers from the territories who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1789-1815.
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryMilitary HistoryGerman History
Dictionary of 10,102 French Army officers killed or wounded during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), based on a revision of Martinien's book, with an introduction by Charles Esdaile and John Morgan. Each individual is identified by full... more
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      Napoleonic WarsPeninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia Española
«Levantamiento, guerra y revolución», la definió el conde de Toreno; «guerra de revolución», en la que «se interesa la felicidad de una nación entera o de muchas; se interesan todas las ciencias y las artes que van a decaer o perecer;... more
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      LiberalismoGaliciaPeninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia Española
A historia de um oficial inglês em Leiria durante a primeira metade do século XIX e a vida na cidade de Leiria durante todo o século XIX Igualmente o livro descreve a vida politica, económica e social durante o século XIX, com natural... more
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      Napoleonic WarsSocial HistoryHistoria política y social siglos XIX y XXPeninsular War
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      Napoleonic WarsHistory of WarPeninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia Española
On the 28th of October in 1811 it happened one of episodes more singular of Peninsular War in Extremaduran land: “Arroyo dos Molinos Surprise”. In spite of there isn’t much bibliography about this subject, the published one as late as... more
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      Peninsular WarGuerra de la Independencia EspañolaSpanish Military HistoryExtremadura
The Battle of Albuera (16 May 1811) was one of the most bloody and obstinate battles of the Peninsular War. An allied British, Spanish and Portuguese corps, commanded by Marshal William Carr Beresford, engaged elements of the French... more
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      Military HistoryPeninsular WarLa AlbueraAnglo-Portuguese army
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      Italian (European History)Italian StudiesSpanish HistoryAutobiography
The very same Neostoicism that at the beginning of the XVIIth century helped —as Domínguez Manzano states— “to build an autonomous moral system, justifiable on its own and independent from external doctrinaire impositions, but at the same... more
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      Emblem studiesChristian IconographyIconologyPeninsular War
Manoel Ignácio Martins Pamplona Corte Real (1760-1832), foi agraciado com o título francês de Baron de Pamplona (1817) por Luís XVIII e com o título de Conde de Subserra (1823) por D. João VI. Natural de Angra de Heroísmo, originário de... more
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      AzoresLiberalismoPeninsular WarAntigo Regime
Façamos ideia do lastimoso estado em que ficou Leiria depois da retirada de l’Armée du Portugal sob o comando de Masséna. Imaginemos uma terra ocupada seis longos meses por estrangeiros inimigos, sedentos de vingança, fugindo raivosos... more
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      HistoryPeninsular WarLeiria