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Oxford: Osprey History, 1999. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 7x1x9. Younghusband, Bill. First edition. Wrappers lightly rubbed. 1999 Soft Cover. 96 pp. Color plates by Bill Younghusband. The storming of Badajoz was an epic action which involved Wellington's infantry in some of the most savage hand-to-hand fighting of the whole Peninsular War. At appalling cost in a nightmare assault during the night of April 6, 1812, Wellington's soldiers hacked their way over the bodies of the dead and through the huge medieval walls of the town. These were held with great tenacity, skill and courage by a resolute French and German garrison. Having stormed the town the battle-crazed army lost control and the horrors of the sacking which followed, as much as the courage of the attackers, have passed into legend. Napoleon once said that fortresses would not stop an army, but they would retard its progress. In the case of the mighty Spanish fortress of Badajoz he was absolutely correct. For not only did…
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The importance of Badajoz lay in the fact that it commanded the southern corridor between Spain and Portugal, the fortress of Elvas was its counterpart on the Portuguese side of the border.
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- Title Badajoz 1812
- Author Ian Fletcher
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- Edition First Edition Th
- Pages 96
- Language ENG
- Publisher Osprey Publishing, Oxford, England
- Date March 25, 2001
- ISBN 9781841762616
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