A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 3, Sep. 1809-Dec. 1810

by Charles Oman

CONTENTS

SECTION XVII
From Talavera to Ocaña
Chapter		PAGE
[I.]	Introductory. The Central Junta. Wellesley and Wellington	[1]
[II.]	Events in Eastern Spain during the Summer and Autumn of 1809: the Siege of Gerona begins	[9]
[III.]	The Fall of Gerona (Aug.–Dec. 1809)	[37]
[IV.]	The Autumn Campaign of 1809: Tamames, Ocaña, and Alba de Tormes	[67]
SECTION XVIII
The Conquest of Andalusia
[I.]	The Consequences of Ocaña (Dec. 1809–Jan. 1810)	[103]
[II.]	The Conquest of Andalusia: King Joseph and his plans	[114]
[III.]	Andalusia overrun: Cadiz preserved (Jan.–Feb. 1810)	[128]
SECTION XIX
The Portuguese Campaign of 1810
[I.]	The Military Geography of Portugal	[153]
[II.]	Wellington’s Preparations for Defence	[167]
[III.]	The French Preparations: Masséna’s Army of Portugal	[197]
[IV.]	The Months of Waiting: Siege of Astorga (March–May 1810)	[212]
[V.]	The Months of Waiting: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (May–July 1810)	[231]
[VI.]	The Combat of the Coa: Siege of Almeida (July–Aug. 1810)	[257]
	Note on Almeida and the Bridge of the Coa	[280]
SECTION XX
Operations in the East and South of Spain during the Spring and Summer of 1810
[I.]	Suchet and Augereau in Aragon, Valencia, and Catalonia, March–July 1810	[282]
[II.]	Operations in the South of Spain during the Spring and Summer of 1810 (March–Oct. 1810)	[315]
SECTION XXI
Bussaco and Torres Vedras (Sept.–Dec. 1810)
[I.]	Masséna’s Advance to Bussaco (Sept. 1810)	[341]
	Note on the Situation upon September 25	[357-8]
[II.]	The Battle of Bussaco (Sept. 27, 1810)	[359]
	Note on the Topography of Bussaco	[386-8]
	Note on the Crisis of the Battle of Bussaco	[388-9]
[III.]	Wellington’s Retreat to the Lines of Torres Vedras (Oct. 1810)	[390]
[IV.]	The Lines of Torres Vedras	[419]
[V.]	Masséna before the Lines: his retreat to Santarem (Oct.–Nov. 1810)	[437]
SECTION XXII
The End of the Year 1810
[I.]	Operations in the North and East of Spain (July–Dec. 1810)	[482]
[II.]	King Joseph, and the Cortes at Cadiz: General Summary	[505]
APPENDICES
[I.]	The Spanish Forces at the Siege of Gerona	[524]
[II.]	The French Forces at the Siege of Gerona	[525]
[III.]	Del Parque’s Army in the Tamames–Alba de Tormes Campaign	[526]
[IV.]	Losses of the French at Tamames (Oct. 18, 1809)	[528]
[V.]	The Partition of the Army of Estremadura in September 1809	[528]
[VI.]	Areizaga’s Army in the Ocaña Campaign	[530]
[VII.]	The French Army of Spain in January 1810	[532]
[VIII.]	Muster-roll of Masséna’s Army of Portugal on September 15, 1810, January 1 and March 15, 1811	[540]
[IX.]	British Losses at the Combat of the Coa	[544]
[X.]	Wellington’s Army in the Campaign of Bussaco	[544]
[XI.]	Masséna’s Orders for the Battle of Bussaco	[549]
[XII.]	British and Portuguese Losses at Bussaco	[550]
[XIII.]	French Losses at Bussaco	[552]
[XIV.]	The Anglo-Portuguese Army in the Lines of Torres Vedras	[554]
[XV.]	The British and Portuguese Artillery in the Campaign of 1810	[558]
[INDEX]		[561]

MAPS AND PLANS
PAGE
[I.]	Siege of Gerona	To face	[48]
[II.]	Battle of Tamames	”	[78]
[III.]	Battle of Ocaña	”	[94]
[IV.]	General Map of Andalusia	”	[128]
[V.]	Topography of Cadiz	”	[148]
[VI.]	Central Portugal	”	[160]
[VII.]	Plan of Astorga	”	[224]
[VIII.]	Plan of Ciudad Rodrigo	”	[240]
[IX.]	Plan of Almeida and the Combat of the Coa	”	[272]
[X.]	General Map of Catalonia	”	[288]
[XI.]	The Mondego Valley	”	[352]
[XII.]	General Plan of Bussaco	”	[368]
[XIII.]	Details of Ney’s and Reynier’s Attack at Bussaco	”	[380]
[XIV.]	The Lines of Torres Vedras	”	[432]

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Portrait of Wellington	[Frontispiece]
Spanish Infantry: Uniforms of 1808	To face	[112]
Portrait of Masséna	”	[208]
Spanish Infantry: Uniforms of 1810	”	[320]
Coins current in the Peninsula 1808–14	”	[496]

NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS

[I. Spanish Infantry 1808]

This shows the old uniform of Charles IV. The Line regiments had white, the Foreign and Light regiments blue, coats. Both wore white breeches and black gaiters: the plume and facings varied in colour for each regiment.

[II. Spanish Infantry 1810]

Under the influence of the immense quantity of British materials supplied, the uniform has completely changed since 1808. The cut is assimilated to that of the British army—the narrow-topped shako, and long trousers have been introduced. The coat is dark-blue, the trousers grey-blue, the facings red. Grenadiers have the grenade, light-companies the bugle-horn on their shakos.

ERRATA

[Page 264], [line 13], for 318 read 333

[Page 277], [line 20], for 1811 read 1810

[Page 335]. Lord Blayney’s force had only a half-battalion, not a whole battalion of the 89th, but contained 4 companies of foreign chasseurs, not mentioned in the text. [See his Memoirs, i. pp. 5-6.]

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