History of the Peninsular War Vol. 7: August 1813-April 14 1814; The Capture of St. Sebastian Wellington’s Invasion of France Battles of the Nivelle the Nive Orthez and Toulouse With Maps (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A History of the Peninsular War Vol. 7: August 1813-April 14 1814; The Capture of St. Sebastian Wellington’s Invasion of France Battles of the Nivelle the Nive Orthez and Toulouse With Maps<br><br>In the completion of this last volume I have to make mention of other helpers with whom I was not acquainted when the book was first begun - General Arzadun of the Spanish Artillery Colonel Olavide of the Spanish Engineers (whose beautiful atlas of the St. Sebastian defences proved most useful) General Teixeira Botelho at Lisbon author of monographs on the Portuguese Artillery and General J. C. Dalton r.a. of Ripon who put me on the trail of the Giron papers and other Spanish documents. It would be impossible to make a list of other kindly correspondents who have supplied me with iso lated facts on some point of regimental history or local topography.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.