1904 Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula (1808-1814)

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First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in two volumes. First edition. Volume I is illustrated with seven in-text maps, and six maps on plates, five of which are folding. Volume II is illustrated with eight in-text maps, and six maps on plates, four of which are folding. Collated complete. A study of the operations of Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesleys, a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Regarding his tactics and campaigns in the Peninsula War of the early nineteenth century, between the years 1808 and 1814. Providing a detailed account of Wellington's movements in this stage of the Napoleonic wars in chronological order, this work recounts, in the words of the author, 'the story of the most successful campaigns ever waged by the British Army'. Written by Captain Lewis Butler, a British military officer of the King's Royal Rifle Corps.