Last week I talked about Anne Cleeland’s new book, set in Spain in the aftermath of the Peninsular War. I thought it would be fun to reprise an old post of mine from 2014 about my research on this topic. … Continue reading →
If you are a fan of Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe books, or have seen Sean Bean’s excellent portrayal of the hero in the series, you are familiar with the battles among the French, British, Spanish and Portuguese in the Iberian peninsula during the Napoleonic era. And if … Continue reading →