Wellington’s Peninsular War Generals and Their Battles

by T. A. “Tony” Heathcote

First published 2010

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Wellington’s Peninsular War Generals and Their Battles profiles the senior officers who served under Arthur Wellesley during the campaigns in Portugal, Spain and southern France. Tony Heathcote presents forty-one biographies covering infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, staff and support services, showing the varied careers and earlier campaigns that shaped the commanders Wellington relied upon.

A complementary battle section follows the principal engagements in which these officers fought, placing individual careers within the operational history of the Peninsular War. The combination of concise biography and campaign reference shows how command worked beneath Wellington and how experience gained across the wider Napoleonic Wars contributed to the army that eventually drove French forces out of the Iberian Peninsula.