A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 / From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna

CONTENTS

SECTION I
Napoleon and the Spanish Bourbons
Chapter		PAGE
I.	The Treaty of Fontainebleau	1
II.	The Court of Spain	12
III.	The Conquest of Portugal	26
IV.	The French aggression in Spain: Abdication of Charles IV	33
V.	The Treachery at Bayonne	43
VI.	The Second of May: Outbreak of the Spanish Insurrection	57
SECTION II
The Land and the Combatants
I.	Military geography of the Peninsula: Mountains, Rivers, Roads	72
II.	The Spanish Army in 1808	89
III.	The French Army in Spain	103
IV.	The tactics of the French and their adversaries during the Peninsular War	114
SECTION III
Saragossa and Baylen
I.	Opening of hostilities: the French Invasions of Andalusia and Valencia	123
II.	Operations in the North: the siege of Saragossa	140
III.	Operations in the North: battle of Medina de Rio Seco	163
IV.	Dupont in Andalusia: the Capitulation of Baylen	176
SECTION IV
The English in Portugal
I.	The outbreak of the Portuguese Insurrection	206
II.	Landing of the British: combat of RoliÇa	220
III.	Vimiero	242
IV.	The Convention of Cintra	263
V.	The French evacuate Portugal	279
VI.	The Court of Inquiry	291
SECTION V
The Struggle in Catalonia
I.	Duhesme’s operations: first siege of Gerona (June-July, 1808)	301
II.	The struggle continued: the second siege of Gerona (July-August, 1808)	322
SECTION VI
The Consequences of Baylen
I.	The French NOTE The coins on the binding of the book are—the first a half-dollar of the last issue of Charles IV, the second a siege-piece struck at Gerona in 1808. That on the title-page is a peseta struck at Valencia, with a patriotic legend on the reverse, RENUEVA VAL. SU JURAM. SELLADO CON SU SANGRE. Clyx.com