1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000006930

Autore

Cermanovic-Kuzmanovic, Aleksandrina

Titolo

Monumenta intra fines iugoslaviae reperta / A. Cermanovic-Kuzmanovic (5)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : Brill, 1982

ISBN

90-04-06533

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 76 p., [1] cart. geogr. ripieg. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Collana

Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain ; 74

Disciplina

291.211

Soggetti

Cavaliere di Tracia <divinità> - Culto - Iugoslavia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786129203321

Autore

Butler Captain Lewis

Titolo

Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula 1808-1814 . Volume 1 / / Captain Lewis Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Luton, England : , : Andrews UK Ltd., , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-78149-087-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 p.)

Collana

Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula 1808-1814

Disciplina

940.2742

Soggetti

Peninsular War, 1807-1814

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Half title -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- List of Sketch Maps -- Body matter -- Part I -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Chapter III -- Chapter IV



-- Chapter V -- Chapter VI -- Part II -- Chapter VII -- Chapter VIII -- Chapter IX -- Chapter X -- Chapter XI -- Part III -- Chapter XII -- Chapter XIII -- Chapter XIV -- Chapter XV -- Chapter XVI -- Chapter XVII -- Chapter XVIII -- Chapter XIX -- Part IV -- Chapter XX -- Chapter XXI.

Sommario/riassunto

Written almost a century after the events they describe, Lewis Butler's two volumes on Wellington's Peninsula War campaigns have rightly been judged a classic of military history. The story of how the Iron Duke turned disaster into triumph, and defeat into a final victory, has surely never been told with more authority.Butler's first volume begins with the Spanish popular revolt against the imposition of Napoleon's brother Joseph as their king and their appeal to Britain for aid. Early British disasters culminate in Sir John Moore's retreat and death at Corunna. Wellington fought back at the battles of Talavera and Busaco, but was compelled by Marshal Massena to retreat once more into Portugal, and only his foresight in constructing the impregnable lines of Torres Vedras, and denuding the country before them, saved the day. The first volume concludes with Wellington taking the offensive again at the battle of Fuentes d'Onoro and Albuera.Both volumes are liberally illustrated with maps and sketches of the battles and other operations. What Napoleon called his 'Spanish ulcer' has never been more minutely described and dissected, with the author paying a military man's due attention to the sinews of war as well as to the action.