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I. Introductory—The Old Peninsular Army 1
II. Sources of Information—The Literature of the Peninsular War 9
III. The Duke of Wellington—The Man and the Strategist 39
IV. Wellington’s Infantry Tactics—Line versus Column 61
V. Wellington’s Tactics—The Cavalry and Artillery 94
VI. Wellington’s Lieutenants—Hill, Beresford, Graham 115
VII. Wellington’s Lieutenants—Picton, Craufurd, and Others 129
VIII. The Organization of the Army: Headquarters 153
IX. The Organization of the Army: Brigades and Divisions 163
X. The Organization of the Army: The Regiments 178
XI. Internal Organization of the Regiment: The Officers 195
XII. Internal Organization of the Regiment: The Rank and File 208
XIII. The Auxiliaries: The Germans and the Portuguese 220
XIV. Discipline and Court-Martials 237
XV. The Army on the March 255
XVI. Impedimenta: The Baggage: Ladies at the Front 268
XVII. A Note on Sieges 279
XVIII. Uniforms and Weapons 292
XIX. The Commissariat 307
XX. A Note on the Spiritual Life 320
Appendix I. Establishment and Stations of the British Army in 1809 333
Appendix II. The Divisions and Brigades of the Peninsular Army, 1809–1814, by C.T. Atkinson, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford 343
Appendix III. Bibliography of English Diaries, Journals and Memoirs of the Peninsular War 375
Index 385

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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