CONTENTS

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I.Introductory—The Old Peninsular Army[1]
II.Sources of Information—The Literature of the Peninsular War[9]
III.The Duke of Wellington—The Man and the Strategist[39]
IV.Wellington’s Infantry Tactics—Line versus Column[61]
V.Wellington’s Tactics—The Cavalry and Artillery[94]
VI.Wellington’s Lieutenants—Hill, Beresford, Graham[115]
VII.Wellington’s Lieutenants—Picton, Craufurd, and Others[129]
VIII.The Organization of the Army: Headquarters[153]
IX.The Organization of the Army: Brigades and Divisions[163]
X.The Organization of the Army: The Regiments[178]
XI.Internal Organization of the Regiment: The Officers[195]
XII.Internal Organization of the Regiment: The Rank and File[208]
XIII.The Auxiliaries: The Germans and the Portuguese[220]
XIV.Discipline and Court-Martials[237]
XV.The Army on the March[255]
XVI.Impedimenta: The Baggage: Ladies at the Front[268]
XVII.A Note on Sieges[279]
XVIII.Uniforms and Weapons[292]
XIX.The Commissariat[307]
XX.A Note on the Spiritual Life[320]
Appendix I.Establishment and Stations of the British Army in 1809[333]
Appendix II.The Divisions and Brigades of the Peninsular Army, 1809–1814, by C. T. Atkinson, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford[343]
Appendix III.Bibliography of English Diaries, Journals and Memoirs of the Peninsular War[375]
Index [385]