An updated and revised edition of Osprey's Atlas of the Peninsular War, featuring highly detailed mapping supported by an authoritative and fascinating text. The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and sheer perseverance. The British Army, under Sir John Moore and Wellington, ranged across the plains and mountains of Portugal and Spain and into France, taking part in 15 field actions and four bloody sieges, including Salamanca, Vitoria and Badajoz, but this is only part of the picture. The contribution of the Spanish and Portuguese forces is frequently overlooked, but there were a further 25 field actions and 15 sieges in the Iberian peninsula as part of the savage duel between the French occupiers and native inhabitants. In this revised edition, Colonel Nick Lipscombe expands upon his comprehensive, non-partisan examination of the conflict with 164 original maps, accompanied by an authoritative text narrating the war.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by The Duke of Wellington Preface Chronology Introduction by Professor Charles Esdaile Legend Junot’s Invasion of Portugal The Road to War – The First Six Months of 1808 The Spanish Backlash and the French Response: May–June 1808 The First Siege of Zaragoza, 15 June–14 August 1808 Operations in the North: The Battle of Medina de Rióseco Capitulation at Bailén: The Greatest Spanish Victory of the War French Failures and British Intervention The Liberation of Portugal Strategic Manoeuvring: September to October 1808 Napoleonic Intervention: November 1808 Napoleon enters Madrid and Moore enters Spain The Campaign in Catalonia: autumn 1808 Isolation and Retreat: December 1808 to January 1809 Napoleon Departs for France: the Situation in Early 1809 Continued French Success: February and March 1908 The Second French Invasion of Portugal: January to March 1809 Wellesley Returns Suchet: An Inauspicious Start The Talavera Campaign: May to July 1809 The End of the Talavera Campaign: August 1809 The Disastrous Autumn Campaign: 1809 The Capture of Girona: May to December 1809 Subjugation of Andalusia: January to February 1810 Aragon and the East Coast: January to May 1810 1810: The Year of Sieges The Third French Invasion of Portugal The Lines of Torres Vedras Offensive on the East Coast: Tortosa Soult’s Invasion of Estremadura: January to March 1811 The South of Spain: January to March 1811 Masséna: Retreat and Demise, March to May 1811 The Allied Campaign in Estremadura: March to August 1811 The Watershed: mid-1811 Figueras & Tarragona: The East Coast, April to August 1811 Border Skirmishes: June to September 1811 The Conquest of Valencia: September 1811 to January 1812 The Culmination of a Year of Mixed Fortunes: December 1811 Capturing the ‘Keys to Spain’: January to April 1812 The Salamanca Campaign: Opening Moves, June and July 1812 The Battle of Salamanca (Los Arapiles): 22 July 1812 Suchet’s Consolidation on the East Coast: January to July 1812 After Salamanca: July to August 1812 Failure, Humiliation and Retreat: September to November 1812 Prologue to Vitoria: January to May 1813 Operations on the East Coast: Late 1812 to April 1813 Victory Over King Joseph: The Vitoria Campaign, May to June 1813 While Wellington Waits, Soult Takes the Initiative: July 1813 The Battle of the Pyrenees: 25 July to 1 August 1813 The East Coast: May to September 1813 The Fall of San Sebastián: August and September 1813 The Allies Enter France: October 1813 To the Gates of Bayonne: October to December 1813 Respite Precedes the Storm: December 1813 to February 1814 Final Confrontation ~ March and April 1814 Appendices Glossary Bibliography