How did Napoleon's focus on saving his empire after Russia leave Spain vulnerable to Wellington’s forces? In 1813, as French armies weakened, Wellington’s advance liberated Madrid again and set the ...

Napoleon considered the Iberian Peninsula another world — with people ... It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated ...

French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic ...

It was here, on a hillside just west of Madrid, that Wellesley was to fight one of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the Peninsular War. Peter examines some artefacts from the battle.

In the Philippines: Japanese forces take Manila; American and Filipino troops withdraw to Bataan peninsula ... Battle of the Coral Sea: In the first Japanese defeat of the war, American forces ...

Bonaparte's Peninsular War will take you through battles and campaigns focused in and around Portugal, but also branch out into Spain for some of the early war actions of 1809. The balance of the ...

SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago the end was in sight for World War 2. Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945.

His gravestone is of red marble and the inscription reads: Beneath this stone rest the remains of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, who by his own deserts through fifty years of arduous service from the ...