Ian Fletcher Boeken

Biography of Robert Craufurd, one of Wellington's finest generals during the Peninsular War.

Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at Garcia Hernandez. There would be two more years of sieges and hard fighting before the Iron Duke crossed the Pyrenees into France but from Salamanca the British and their Portuguese and Spanish allies always had the upper hand. Ian Fletcher examines this important battle in detail and also discusses the campaign which led up to it.

Wellington's army was a superb fighting machine which blazed a trail of glory across the Iberian Peninsula from Portugal to southern France, fighting a score of major battles and storming three powerfully held fortresses. This beautifully illustrated account of that army includes actions, service records and eight pages of unique uniform plates

This is the story of the Waterloo campaign from the perspective of the British Army. Uniquely, it begins with the break-up of Wellington's army at the end of the Peninsular War, continues with the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and then examines the fighting that followed, as Wellington's army pushed on to Paris