Strategic Military Atlas

of the Napoleonic Wars

William James Hamblin
The Peninsular War
September to December, 1807
 Peninsular War: Bibliography of Secondary Studies 1807
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General Secondary Studies and Abbreviations Leon Specialized Secondary Studies and Abbreviations
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APW = Ian Robertson and Martin Brown,
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War (Yale, 2010)

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FRNW = Gregory Fremont-Barnes (ed). The Encyclopedia of the Valladolid

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French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. (ABC-CLIO, 2006) uero

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Esdaile = Charles Esdaile, The Peninsular War, (Penguin, 2003) Ja
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Porto Duero o Barcelona
Esdaile, Fighting = Charles Esdaile, Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas,
Tor
Salamanca
Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814,Almeida (Yale, 2004) mes
Fletcher = Ian Fletcher, Galloping at Everything: The British Cavalry
in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, 1808-1815. (Spellmount,

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2007) Madrid
Gates = David Gates, The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular
War, (Da Capo, 2001) Tagus
Tajo
Talavera
Hall = Christopher D Hall, Wellingtons
Tagus
Abrantes
Navy: Sea Power
Alcantara
and the Toledo
Peninsular War, 1807-1814. (Chatham/Stackpole, 2004) Jocar Palma de Mallorca
NWDB = Digby Smith, The Greenville Napoleonic Wars Data Book, Valencia

(Greenhill, 1998) u e la
Elvas Badajoz Gig
Guadian
Oman = Oman, Charles, A History of the Peninsular War,
a 7 vols. Ciudad Real
Lisbon
(Oxford, 1902-1930)
Weller = Jac Weller, Wellington in the Peninsula, (1962)
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Cartagena
Genil
Seville
Granada

Almera
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Gibraltar
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French Army mobilizes 1807/09
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{08-/09} French mobilize Narbonne Marseille
Oviedo Bilbao Juno
28,000 men under Junot
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1- Introductory background on

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Figueira da Foz Madrid

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Tajo
Talavera
Toledo
Tagus
Abrantes Alcantara
Peniche Jocar Palma de Mallorca
Valencia
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Elvas
Badajoz Gig
Guadian
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Ciudad Real
Lisbon

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Cartagena
Genil Studies
Seville
Chartrand, Vimeiro, 12-3
Granada
EFRNW 2:516-8
Almera Oman, 1:26-33
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Gibraltar
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Junot marches to Salamanca 1807/10
Bayonne xxx
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Villafranca xxx
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1- {10/18-/11/12} With Spanish

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French army of 25,000 to
J Ebr
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Porto Barcelona Salamanca. [Esdaile 8-9]
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Almeida
Salamanca
mes 2- {10/27} Spanish succession
crisis with crown prince
Ferdinand [Esdaile 24-25]

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2 3- {10/29} Treaty of
Figueira da Foz Madrid
Fontainbleau divides planned
Tajo
Tagus conquest of Portugal between
Talavera
Toledo France and Spain [Esdaile 7-8;
Tagus
Abrantes Alcantara
Peniche Jocar Palma de Mallorca FRNW 1:355]
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Cartagena brings 7000 men to
Genil Gibraltar from Sicily.
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Gibraltar
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Junot marches to Alcantara 1807/11/1-18
Bayonne
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In alliance with the French, Perpignan
Villafranca xxx
Tarancos Spanish corps of Leon
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1- {11/12-18} Junot marches

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Portuguese border at Alcantara
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Porto Duero o Barcelona
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Almeida xxxx
Juno

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Figueira da Foz Madrid

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Tajo
Talavera
Toledo
Tagus
Abrantes Alcantara Caraffas corps of 9500 is

xxx
Peniche Jocar Palma de Mallorca
placed under Junots
Caraf Valencia
command at Alcantara.
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Guadian
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Lisbon
Solan

Solanos corps of 9500 Alicante

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Cartagena
Genil Studies
Seville
Chartrand, Vimeiro, 13
Granada
{11/16} Russian Mediterranean fleet Oman, 1:26-33
of 10 warships, under admiral Almera Wiki: Invasion of Portugal
Siniavinand nominally allied with Cadiz
Napoleonarrives in Lisbon. It 1
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remains inactive in the Tagus estuary
until 1808/09/03, when it is interned Gibraltar
by the British [Hall 18-19, 36-37]
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Junot marches to Lisbon 1807/11/19-30
Bayonne
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{/11/22} Duponts corps (25k) {/11/late} Monceys corps
Mon Marseille
Bilbao Dup
(30k) marches from Boulogne Narbonne
Oviedo marches towards Vittoria [Oman 1:34]
to Bayonne [Oman 1:34]
Santiago
Vitoria
Perpignan
Villafranca xxx
Leon
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1- {11/19-25} Junot marches

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{11/23}.
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warships under Sydney
Porto Barcelona 2- The main Portuguese army of
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Smith arrives to assist Almeida
Salamanca
mes 10-15,000 men makes no
allied Portuguese royal resistence.
family. [Hall 13-20] 3- {11/27-29} The Portuguese

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king-regent Joao VI with the
Figueira da Foz Madrid
Royal family and 15,000
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Tajo
Tagus nobles and wealthy elites flee
1 Juno Talavera
Toledo Portugal in a fleet of 36 vessels
Tagus
Abrantes Alcantara
Peniche
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Jocar Palma de Mallorca to establish a government in
4 Caraf Caraffas corps joins with Valencia exile in Brazil. [Hall 15-17]
the French under Junots
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u e la 4- {11/26-30} Junots advanced
Elvas Guad command.
Badajoz
guard of 1500 captures Lisbon
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xxx Ciudad Real
Lisbon on 30 November. The rest of
Solan
the army follows a few days
3
Alicante
later. [Esdaile 26-7]

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Cartagena
Genil Studies
Seville
Chartrand, Vimeiro, 13-15
Granada
Esdaile 27-30
Almera Oman 1:26-33
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Russian fleet of 10 warships remains Gibraltar

1 inactive in the Lisbon Tagus bay.
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French Occupation of Portugal 1807/12/01-15
Bayonne
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1 1- {1202-/13} Tarancos Spanish

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2- {12/02} Solanos corps of
J Ebr
Duero o
Porto Barcelona 9500 enters Portugal near
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Almeida
Salamanca
mes Elvas.
3- French occupy the major
fortresses of Portugal.

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Figueira da Foz Madrid

Tagus
3 Tajo
Talavera
Toledo
Tagus Alcantara
Peniche Jocar Palma de Mallorca
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Gig
Caraf
1 xxxx Elvas Badajoz
Guadian
Juno
a
Lisbon 2 xxx Ciudad Real
Solan
Setbal

Alicante

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Cartagena
Genil Studies
Seville
Chartrand, Vimeiro, 15-16
Granada
Esdaile 27-30
Almera Oman 1:26-33
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Russian fleet of 10 warships remains Gibraltar

1 inactive in the Lisbon Tagus estuary.
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French Occupation of Portugal 1807/12/16-31
Bayonne
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Oviedo Bilbao Mon Narbonne Marseille

Santiago
Vitoriaxxx
Perpignan
Villafranca xxx
Leon Dup
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1- {12/22+} The Portuguese

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French.
xxx J Ebr
Porto Duero o Barcelona
Taran
Tor
Salamanca
mes
Almeida

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Figueira da Foz Madrid

Tagus
Tajo
Talavera
Toledo
Tagus Alcantara
Peniche Jocar Palma de Mallorca
xxx Valencia
xxxx
1 u e la
Gig
Caraf
1 xxxx Elvas Badajoz
Guadian
Juno a
xxx Ciudad Real
Lisbon
Solan
Setbal
{12/late} British fleet
of 8 warships under
Alicante
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British soldiers to

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secure the Portuguese ada Cordoba Murcia
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island of Madeira.
[Hall 18] Cartagena
Genil Studies
Seville
Chartrand, Vimeiro, 15-16
Granada
2 Esdaile 27-3
Almera Oman 1:26-33
Cadiz Wiki: Invasion of Portugal
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Russian fleet of 10 warships remains Gibraltar

1 inactive in the Lisbon Tagus estuary.