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  • HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULAR AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO THE YEAR 1814 VOL. 3
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "When Gallicia was delivered by the campaign of Talavera, the Asturias became the head of a new line of operation threatening the enemy’s principal communication with France. But this advantage was feebly used. Kellerman’s division at Valladolid, and Bonet’s at San Andero, sufficed to hold both Asturians and Gallicians in check; and the sanguinary operations in the val...

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  • HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULAR AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO THE YEAR 1814 VOL. 2
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "The effect produced in England by the unfortunate issue of sir John Moore’s campaign, was not proportionable to the importance of the subject. The people, trained to party politics, and possessing no real power to rebuke the folly of the cabinet, regarded disasters and triumphs with factious rather than with national feelings, and it was alike easy to draw the public ...

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  • HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULAR AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO THE YEAR 1814 VOL. 1
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "For six years the Peninsula was devastated by the war of independence. The blood of France, Germany, England, Portugal, and Spain, was shed in the contest; and in each of those countries, authors, desirous of recording the sufferings, or celebrating the valour of their countrymen, have written largely touching that fierce struggle. It may therefore happen that some wi...

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  • ENGLISH BATTLES AND SIEGES IN THE PENINSULA
    WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK NAPIER
    Excerpt: "For the authenticity of the events the reader has this guarantee. The author was either an eye-witness of what he relates, or acquired his knowledge from those who were. Persons of no mean authority. Commanders-in-chief, generals, and other officers on both sides; private official correspondence of the English envoys; military journals and reports of the French leader...

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  • ATILA
    NAPIER WILLIAM
    Una trepidante novela de ficción histórica. En el amanecer del siglo V, Roma se tambalea al borde del abismo. El gran imperio que otrora dominara el mundo occidental se muestra peligrosamente vulnerable a sus antiguos enemigos: las grandes tribus bárbaras de vándalos y visigodos. Sin embargo, son peores los rumores de un nuevo poder que surge en el este. Una nación de feroces g...
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