http://www.armchairgeneral.com/cdg-30-fighting-napoleons-armies-in-spain-1808-outcome-and-analysis.htm All things military history! Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:45:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.armchairgeneral.com/cdg-30-fighting-napoleons-armies-in-spain-1808-outcome-and-analysis.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7474 Bobbo Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:06:47 +0000 http://www.armchairgeneral.com/?p=5696#comment-7474 If he had been more imaginative or smarter, he would have dispensed 2-300 professional trainers in the spanish/portugese interior and organized the guerillas to become a stronger force. He should have distributed weapons and medicines. He should have sat in Lisbon (a fortress supported by 12 ships of the line) and launched raids from ships. I think the reason he advanced so far into Spain was to fight the french on land. He was kinda suprised that the french advanced so quickly and with so many men. And this was before the french cavalry was decimated in Russia. For much of the remainder of the war, the british sat in Lisbon. When Wellesley showed up with 30,000 veterans, he advanced on the isolated french units and beat them in detail. With the help of 100,000 irregulars....he ended up in southern france when the war ended....by then all the available professional french troops were in germany fighting the massed coalition... If he had been more imaginative or smarter, he would have dispensed 2-300 professional trainers in the spanish/portugese interior and organized the guerillas to become a stronger force. He should have distributed weapons and medicines. He should have sat in Lisbon (a fortress supported by 12 ships of the line) and launched raids from ships. I think the reason he advanced so far into Spain was to fight the french on land. He was kinda suprised that the french advanced so quickly and with so many men. And this was before the french cavalry was decimated in Russia. For much of the remainder of the war, the british sat in Lisbon. When Wellesley showed up with 30,000 veterans, he advanced on the isolated french units and beat them in detail. With the help of 100,000 irregulars….he ended up in southern france when the war ended….by then all the available professional french troops were in germany fighting the massed coalition…

]]> http://www.armchairgeneral.com/cdg-30-fighting-napoleons-armies-in-spain-1808-outcome-and-analysis.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7204 Arthur E. Murchison Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:33:47 +0000 http://www.armchairgeneral.com/?p=5696#comment-7204 I enjoyed you article on the retreat to and battle of Corunna. Thank you. I would appreciate a reference for your statement that "4,000 British soldiers ...marched from Portugal to await the arrival of evacuation vessels". Can we assume that the 4,000 additional British troops took part in the battle? Thanks I enjoyed you article on the retreat to and battle of Corunna. Thank you.
I would appreciate a reference for your statement that “4,000 British soldiers …marched from Portugal to await the arrival of evacuation vessels”. Can we assume that the 4,000 additional British troops took part in the battle?
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