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Historical person
1768–1854
William Beresford was an Anglo-Irish soldier and marshal in Portuguese service during the Peninsular War. He reorganised the Portuguese army and commanded allied forces in several major operations against Napoleon’s armies.
Adrian Goldsworthy’s Whose Business Is to Die places William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making and court politics and dynastic power.
Historical context
Series
The Napoleonic Wars series follows officers and soldiers of the fictional 106th Regiment of Foot through Wellington’s campaigns. The novels move from the first British intervention in Spain through Moore’s retreat to Corunna, Talavera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Cádiz and Albuera, showing the war through ordinary officers rather than generals…
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