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Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith

1798–1872

Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith was a Spanish noblewoman who met the British officer Harry Smith after the storming of Badajoz in 1812. Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith is generally dated to 1798–1872.

Still a teenager, she married him within days and accompanied him through the remaining Peninsular campaigns, later travelling with his postings in Britain, India and South Africa. Her energy and adaptability became part of military legend, and the South African town of Ladysmith was named in her honour.

In Georgette Heyer’s The Spanish Bride, During the aftermath of the storming of Badajoz in 1812, Brigade-Major Harry Smith meets the young Spanish aristocrat Juana de León and marries her within days.

Periods

Periods linked to Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith

Peninsular War1807–1814 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith (1 series)

Historical Romances in Order

by Georgette Heyer 9 books 4.3(16,123)

This collection brings together Georgette Heyer’s historical novels set outside her main Regency-romance sequence. The settings range from medieval England and France to the Norman Conquest, Elizabethan maritime conflict, the escape of Charles II and the Peninsular War. The list follows the ordering supplied by the Fantastic Fiction…

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