Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
by Malyn Newitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Despite its modest size, Portugal has played a major part in the development of Europe and the modern world. In Portugal in European and World History Malyn Newitt offers a fresh appraisal of Portuguese history and its role in the world—from early Moorish times to the English Alliance of 1650–1900...
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume IV December 1810-December 1811
Massena's Retreat, Fuentes De Onoro, Albuera, Tarragona [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 16 maps and 5 portraits
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources....
Conquerors
How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match....
Letters from Portugal and Spain: written during the march of the British troops under Sir John Moore
Letters from Portugal and Spain: written during the march of the British troops under Sir John Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Sir Robert Ker Porter’s life was as varied and dramatic as his paintings. A noted author, artist, soldier and diplomat, he was born into a military family in Durham. After developing a reputation for his painting, he travelled extensively in Northern Europe, before accepting commissions for historical...
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume III September 1809 to December 1810
September 1809 to December 1810: Ocana, Cadiz, Bussaco, Torres Vedras [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 14 maps and 5 portraits
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources....
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume II January to September 1809
From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 9 maps and 5 portraits
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources. Sir...
The Battle of Barrosa, 1811
Forgotten Battle of the Peninsular War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Witness the critical campaign that changed the course of the Peninsular War, helped defeat Napoleon, and save Spain!
Napoleon’s armies were relentless in their campaign to claim the Iberian Peninsula, waging war against Spain and Portugal for six years. The upstart emperor’s ambition had already...
by James Carrick Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Sir John Moore died at the height of his glory, having just defeated Marshal Soult’s French forces at the Battle of Corunna in 1809 during the Peninsular War. On his lips as he died he hoped that the British Public would remember him and that they would be proud that he had done his duty.
However,...
by James Carrick Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Sir John Moore died at the height of his glory, having just defeated Marshal Soult’s French forces at the Battle of Corunna in 1809 during the Peninsular War. On his lips as he died he hoped that the British Public would remember him and that they would be proud that he had done his duty.
However,...
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume V: October 1811-August 31, 1812
Valencia, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Madrid [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 15 maps and 6 portraits
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources....
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume VI: September 1, 1812 to August 5, 1813
Siege of Burgos, Retreat of Burgos, Vittoria, the Pyrenees [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 11 maps and 2 portraits
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources....
by Walter Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
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I stood upon the salient bastion of an ancient fortress towering high above a swift and placid river. Below and around me swept line upon line of crumbling walls and grass-grown moats, the scene of many a bloody struggle in the evil days of old. From a hundred grim embrasures...
The Portuguese
A Portrait of a People
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent’s south-west rim.In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led...
by Ruth MacKay
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most famous of European impostures, Gabriel de Espinosa,...