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    Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont

    By Ian Fletcher and Bill Younghusband

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    Salamanca was the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War. Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at Garcia Hernandez. There would be two more years of sieges and hard fighting before the Iron Duke crossed the Pyrenees into France but from Salamanca the British and their Portuguese and Spanish allies always had the upper hand. Ian Fletcher examines this important battle in detail and also discusses the campaign which led up to it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 20, 2012
    ISBN9781782001942
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    Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont
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    Ian Fletcher

    Ian Fletcher is a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society and a leading authority on the Peninsular War and Wellington’s army. Born in London in 1957, his first book, In Hell Before Daylight, was published in 1984, since when he has written or edited twenty-four others, including Galloping at Everything, The Crimean War: A Clash of Empires, and Wellington’s Regiments. He worked on the BBC’s Decisive Weapons series, the History Channel’s Line of Fire and Sharpe's War series and Channel 4's series Revolutionary Armies. He has also appeared on Russian and Ukrainian television as part of an award-winning 4-part documentary series on the Crimean War.

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      An overview of the French disaster at Salamanca in 1812, which fails to take into account Wellington's intelligence coup because of the success of his subordinate, Scovell, in breaking the French cipher.