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Sketch Map to Illustrate the Peninsula Campaign, 1808 to 1814



Title: Sketch Map to Illustrate the Peninsula Campaign
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Description: " The Peninsular War does not admit of a casual survey as readily as do NapoleonŐs other campaigns. The definite shock of army against army endng in decisive victory of defeat is missing here. This is partly because the Emperor himself was unable to give his whole attention to Spain, and partly because the war dragged out it unsatisfactory course for five years. There were sharp conflicts between the opponents, but they were not decisive for the reason that the contestants, British and French, were fighting over territory of a third nation, the Spanish, and there could never be added to the strategic value of any operation that political gravity which so influences the scale when one belligerent is defending its own domain. Nevertheless, the war can be divided into phases sufficiently definite to give an understanding of the military situations. The two phases which concern us now are that of Junot in Portugal and that of the Emperor in Spain. " — Holt, 1920
Source: Lucius Hudson Holt, A Brief History of Europe From 1789 to 1815 (New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1920) 260
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman.
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