Salamanca 1812
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Provides analysis of a single day in Salamanca that changed European history.
22 July 1812.Salamanca, Spain.
After days of frustration, Wellington glimpses a moment of opportunity and grasps it, commiting all his troops to a sudden devastating attack.At the end of the day,the French army is broken, panic- stricken and reeling; Wellington has achieved the finest victory of his brilliant military career.
Muir skilfully conveys the experience of ordinary soldiers on both sides, dissects each phase of the fighting and explores the crucial decisions made by each commander.He employs wide-ranging British and French sources – many unpublished or obscure – to reconstruct every aspect of the battle.
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