In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had ...

The Peninsular War was one of the longest and most drawn-out campaigns of the Napoleonic War; a piece of Imperial regime change designed to close off the last European ports open to British trade ...

The French retaliated, killing thousands of Spaniards. It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated their prisoners ...

In the history of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), especially when it comes to English-language sources, there always has been a bias towards the stories of the British and French armies. This is ...

The series Unpublished Memoirs is a recent compilation of British memoirs from the Peninsular War. In this volume, the focus is on the 43 rd Light Regiment of Wellington’s famous Light Division. As ...

English author Bernard Cornwell presents the history of the Peninsular War, the setting for his Sharpe novel series. It was fought for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.

Listen again to the full radio series, recalling Wellington's Peninsular War campaign against Napoleon's forces. The series consists of two half-hour documentaries and five short docudramas based ...