The storming of Badajoz was an epic action which involved Wellington’s infantry in some of the most savage hand-to-hand fighting of the whole Peninsular War (1812). At appalling cost in a nightmare assault during the night of the 6 April 1812, Wellington’s soldiers hacked their way over the bodies of their dead and wounded and through the huge medieval walls of the town. These were held with great tenacity, skill and courage by a resolute French and German garrison. Having stormed the town the battle-crazed army went berserk and the horrors of the sacking which followed, as much as the sublime courage of the attackers, have passed into legend.
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Highly visual guides to history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics, and experiences of the opposing forces throughout each campaign, and concluding with a guide to the battlefields today.
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Ian Fletcher has established a reputation as a Napoleonic historian of the first rank, particularly on the British army in the Peninsular. He has been widely published and among his several titles for Osprey are Elite 52 Wellington’s Foot Guards and Campaign 59 Vittoria 1813.
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Fletcher is THE modern authority on the Peninsular War,
By "limespider" (Littleton, CO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Badajoz 1812: Wellington's Bloodiest Siege (Campaign Series, 65) (Paperback)
Not to take anything away from Jac Weller, who wrote some of my favorite books about Wellington, but Ian Fletcher does spend a significant portion of each year leading battlefield tours around Spain,has written numerous books about the Peninsula War specifically, and has made as his primary business the study of this period of the Napoleonic conflict. For purposes of writing the Osprey Campaign Series title about this battle there is nobody better suited.Fletcher's battlefield descriptions are up to date as he traces out the location of every British battery in relation to contemporary landmarks along with photographs detailing key points of interest. The level of detail is exactly what one has come to expect from the Osprey Campaign Series and, in addition to Badajoz, the seige of Ciudad Rodrigo is also covered in this title. For a greater level of detail than this title permits read "In Hell Before Daylight", also by Ian Fletcher.
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Napoleon once said that fortresses would not stop an army, but they would retard its progress. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fausse braie, castle enclosure, lesser breach, breaching batteries, storming columns, great breach, siege train, first parallel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Light Division, Santa Maria, Greater Teson, Fort Picurina, San Roque, Royal Engineers, San Sebastian, San Vincente, Lesser Teson, San Francisco, Fort Pardaleras, Robert Craufurd, Sir Richard Fletcher, Forlorn Hope, Las Palmas, Peninsular War, Fort Renaud, Greater Breach, Sir Arthur Wellesley, Coldstream Guards, Fitzroy Somerset, General Phillipon, October Wellington, Royal Artillery New!
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Napoleon once said that fortresses would not stop an army, but they would retard its progress. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fausse braie, castle enclosure, lesser breach, breaching batteries, storming columns, great breach, siege train, first parallel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Light Division, Santa Maria, Greater Teson, Fort Picurina, San Roque, Royal Engineers, San Sebastian, San Vincente, Lesser Teson, San Francisco, Fort Pardaleras, Robert Craufurd, Sir Richard Fletcher, Forlorn Hope, Las Palmas, Peninsular War, Fort Renaud, Greater Breach, Sir Arthur Wellesley, Coldstream Guards, Fitzroy Somerset, General Phillipon, October Wellington, Royal Artillery New!
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- A History of the Peninsular War, Volume VII: August 1813 to April 14, 1814: St Sebastian's Capture, Wellington's Invasion of France, Battles of Nive, Orthez, Toulouse by Sir Charles Oman in Back Matter
- Journals of Sieges: Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington in Spain During the Years 1811 to 1814: Pt. 1-3 by John T. Jones in Back Matter
- History of the war in the peninsula (Classics of British historical literature) by William Francis Patrick Napier in Back Matter
- British Sieges of the Peninsular War by Frederick Myatt in Back Matter
- In Hell Before Daylight by Ian Fletcher in Back Matter
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