Peninsular War Atlas (Revised)

Colonel Nick Lipscombe was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He has a degree in business studies and an MSc in defence studies. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1980. During his thirty years in the British Army he has seen considerable operational service with the British and American armies, as well as with NATO and the UN. He was awarded the US Bronze Star in 2006. A keen interest in military history followed his academic studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst concentrating on the Napoleonic era and the Peninsular War in particular. He is Chairman of Peninsular War 200, the UK official organisation for the commemoration of the bicentenary of the Peninsular War.

This sensational, 384-page hardback book is handsomely presented in a slip-case. Overall this is an important and essential book for anyone interested in Napoleonic history. -- Toy Soldier & Model Figure '... a prodigious achievement ... I particularly admire the way [Lipscombe gives] such serious treatment to campaigns in which there was no British involvement, and to the relatively minor sieges whose details are usually so obscure. Overall, I do not believe that Lipscombe's effort will ever be surpassed.' -- Richard Holmes From Trevor James (Historical Association website and The Historian) A fascinating exercise in mapping. This is also a way to understand and value the emergence of the Duke of Wellington as a European military tactician. Clearly chronicled and explained. Extremely specialist piece of scholarship.

• Foreword by The Duke of WellingtonPrefaceChronologyIntroduction by Professor Charles EsdaileLegendJunot’s Invasion of PortugalThe Road to War – The First Six Months of 1808The Spanish Backlash and the French Response: May–June 1808The First Siege of Zaragoza, 15 June–14 August 1808Operations in the North: The Battle of Medina de RiósecoCapitulation at Bailén: The Greatest Spanish Victory of the WarFrench Failures and British InterventionThe Liberation of PortugalStrategic Manoeuvring: September to October 1808Napoleonic Intervention: November 1808Napoleon enters Madrid and Moore enters SpainThe Campaign in Catalonia: autumn 1808Isolation and Retreat: December 1808 to January 1809Napoleon Departs for France: the Situation in Early 1809Continued French Success: February and March 1908The Second French Invasion of Portugal: January to March 1809Wellesley ReturnsSuchet: An Inauspicious StartThe Talavera Campaign: May to July 1809The End of the Talavera Campaign: August 1809The Disastrous Autumn Campaign: 1809The Capture of Girona: May to December 1809Subjugation of Andalusia: January to February 1810Aragon and the East Coast: January to May 18101810: The Year of SiegesThe Third French Invasion of PortugalThe Lines of Torres VedrasOffensive on the East Coast: TortosaSoult’s Invasion of Estremadura: January to March 1811The South of Spain: January to March 1811Masséna: Retreat and Demise, March to May 1811The Allied Campaign in Estremadura: March to August 1811The Watershed: mid-1811Figueras & Tarragona: The East Coast, April to August 1811Border Skirmishes: June to September 1811The Conquest of Valencia: September 1811 to January 1812The Culmination of a Year of Mixed Fortunes: December 1811Capturing the ‘Keys to Spain’: January to April 1812The Salamanca Campaign: Opening Moves, June and July 1812The Battle of Salamanca (Los Arapiles): 22 July 1812Suchet’s Consolidation on the East Coast: January to July 1812After Salamanca: July to August 1812Failure, Humiliation and Retreat: September to November 1812Prologue to Vitoria: January to May 1813Operations on the East Coast: Late 1812 to April 1813Victory Over King Joseph: The Vitoria Campaign, May to June 1813While Wellington Waits, Soult Takes the Initiative: July 1813The Battle of the Pyrenees: 25 July to 1 August 1813The East Coast: May to September 1813The Fall of San Sebastián: August and September 1813The Allies Enter France: October 1813To the Gates of Bayonne: October to December 1813Respite Precedes the Storm: December 1813 to February 1814Final Confrontation ~ March and April 1814AppendicesGlossaryBibliography