A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809

by Charles Oman

CONTENTS

SECTION I
Napoleon and the Spanish Bourbons
Chapter		PAGE
[I.]	The Treaty of Fontainebleau	[1]
[II.]	The Court of Spain	[12]
[III.]	The Conquest of Portugal	[26]
[IV.]	The French aggression in Spain: Abdication of Charles IV	[33]
[V.]	The Treachery at Bayonne	[43]
[VI.]	The Second of May: Outbreak of the Spanish Insurrection	[57]
SECTION II
The Land and the Combatants
[I.]	Military geography of the Peninsula: Mountains, Rivers, Roads	[72]
[II.]	The Spanish Army in 1808	[89]
[III.]	The French Army in Spain	[103]
[IV.]	The tactics of the French and their adversaries during the Peninsular War	[114]
SECTION III
Saragossa and Baylen
[I.]	Opening of hostilities: the French Invasions of Andalusia and Valencia	[123]
[II.]	Operations in the North: the siege of Saragossa	[140]
[III.]	Operations in the North: battle of Medina de Rio Seco	[163]
[IV.]	Dupont in Andalusia: the Capitulation of Baylen	[176]
SECTION IV
The English in Portugal
[I.]	The outbreak of the Portuguese Insurrection	[206]
[II.]	Landing of the British: combat of Roliça	[220]
[III.]	Vimiero	[242]
[IV.]	The Convention of Cintra	[263]
[V.]	The French evacuate Portugal	[279]
[VI.]	The Court of Inquiry	[291]
SECTION V
The Struggle in Catalonia
[I.]	Duhesme’s operations: first siege of Gerona (June-July, 1808)	[301]
[II.]	The struggle continued: the second siege of Gerona (July-August, 1808)	[322]
SECTION VI
The Consequences of Baylen
[I.]	The French retreat to the Ebro	[334]
[II.]	Creation of the ‘Junta General’	[342]
[III.]	The ‘Junta General’ in Session	[354]
[IV.]	An episode in the Baltic	[367]
SECTION VII
Napoleon’s Invasion of Spain
[I.]	French and Spanish preparations	[376]
[II.]	The preliminary fighting: arrival of Napoleon	[391]
[III.]	The misfortunes of Joachim Blake: Zornoza and Espinosa de los Monteros	[402]
[IV.]	Napoleon crosses the Ebro: the rout of Gamonal: Soult’s pursuit of Blake	[417]
[V.]	Tudela	[431]
[VI.]	Passage of the Somosierra: Napoleon captures Madrid	[450]
SECTION VIII
The Campaign of Sir John Moore
[I.]	Napoleon at Madrid	[473]
[II.]	Moore at Salamanca	[486]
[III.]	Moore’s advance to Sahagun	[513]
[IV.]	Napoleon’s pursuit of Moore: Sahagun to Astorga	[539]
[V.]	Soult’s pursuit of Moore: Astorga to Corunna	[559]
[VI.]	The battle of Corunna	[583]
APPENDICES
[I.]	Godoy’s Proclamation of Oct. 5, 1806	[603]
[II.]	The Treaty of Fontainebleau	[604]
[III.]	Papers relating to the ‘Affair of the Escurial’	[606]
[IV.]	Abdication of Charles IV	[607]
[V.]	The Spanish Army in 1808	[607]
[VI.]	The first French ‘Army of Spain’	[612]
[VII.]	Papers relating to the Treachery at Bayonne	[616]
[VIII.]	Papers relating to the Capitulation of Baylen	[618]
[IX.]	Papers relating to the Convention of Cintra	[625]
[X.]	List of Members of the Central Junta	[630]
[XI.]	The Spanish Armies, Oct.-Nov. 1808	[631]
[XII.]	The second French ‘Army of Spain’	[640]
[XIII.]	The Army of Sir John Moore, its strength and its losses	[646]
[INDEX]		[649]

MAPS
[1.]	Madrid	[60]
[2.]	Saragossa	[160]
[3.]	Medina de Rio Seco	[168]
[4.]	Andalusia and Baylen	[184]
[5.]	Vimiero	[249]
[6.]	Catalonia	[304]
[7.]	Northern Spain	[384]
[8.]	Espinosa	[413]
[9.]	Tudela	[435]
[10.]	Corunna	[584]
[11.]	Large map of Spain	[At end of volume]
PORTRAITS
[1.]	Charles IV	[Frontispiece]
[2.]	Maria Luisa Queen of Spain	[17]
[3.]	Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace	[41]

NOTE

The coins on the binding of the book are—[the first] a half-dollar of the last issue of Charles IV, [the second] a siege-piece struck at Gerona in 1808. That on [the title-page] is a peseta struck at Valencia, with a patriotic legend on the reverse, RENUEVA VAL. SU JURAM. SELLADO CON SU SANGRE.

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SECTION I

NAPOLEON AND THE SPANISH BOURBONS

CHAPTER I

THE TREATY OF FONTAINEBLEAU