Repercussions of the Peninsular War on Italy
After some considerations on the different situation of the many States of Italy at the beginning of the Peninsular war, the author reviews how the war was perceived by some Italian officers who fought in Spain, both from the military point of view, and ...
Vittorio SCOTTI DOUGLAS
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El mito británico de la Peninsular War [PDF]
Este artículo aclara el concepto de la denominada Peninsular War, poniendo de mani esto la parcial versión británica del mismo a lo largo de los siglos. Un recorri- do historiográ co riguroso demuestra que la guerra, ejemplo de resistencia española y de
Manuel Moreno Alonso
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All roads lead to Salamanca: British combatants’ reflection of a Spanish city in 1808–1812
Introduction. The conflict in the Iberian Peninsula of 1808-1814, which was a part of the Napoleonic Wars, contributed to the intensification of cross-cultural contacts between British combatants and the civilian population of Spain. Salamanca became one
T. A. Kosykh
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La Guerra de la Independencia como guerra religiosa: el ejemplo de los sitios de Zaragoza y Gerona
The Spanish War of Independence or Peninsular War (1808-14) had an undeniable religious side. Some facts of the war were interpreted from biblical passages like the first and second book of Maccabees.
Genís Barnosell
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Napoleão Bonaparte e Portugal. Patriotismo, Revolução e Memória Política da Resistência
Portugal had its “Napoleonic moment”. Before French occupation, the Regent Prince D. João and other prominent figures of the Court received the high distinction of the Legion of Honor and, in 1808, during the absence of the royal family, a group of ...
Ana Cristina Araújo
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Governar Portugal na Guerra Peninsular: um desafio atlântico
The paper presents the international and national context frame leading to the transfer of the Portuguese Court and capital to Rio de Janeiro in 1807: from the observation of the Anglo French conflicts to the analysis of the effective ability to resist ...
Ana Canas
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Flora and vegetation of Pulau Babi Tengah, Johor, Peninsular Malaysia [PDF]
Pulau Babi Tengah is a small granitic island, ca. 106 ha, lying off the south-east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Except for plantation of coconut trees in the early 1900s and deforestation by refugees during the Vietnamese civil war, 1975–1981, the ...
Bruno Senterre, Ming Chew, Richard Chung
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Wars and heroes: the romantic representation of Spain in "Don Juan; or the Battle of Tolosa" (1816)
This paper examines “Don Juan; or the Battle of Tolosa”, an anonymous poem published inLondonin 1816. This metrical tale set in medievalIberiaat the time of the so-called “reconquista” recreates the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212), in which the ...
Sara Medina Calzada
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A invasão de Masséna em 1810 e as linhas de Torres Vedras: uma paradoxaL confluência de objectivos?
The campaign of 1810-1811 is revisited and the paradoxical confluence of the objectives of both parties considered as an explanation of its characteristics.
Fernando Dores Costa
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A transitional man: Xavier Mina between Spain and America, 1789-1817
Francisco Xavier Mina was the physical embodiment of the essentially transitional nature of the Age of Revolutions. He was part of a new generation of leaders who had been born as the ancién régimes were dying and who had absolutely no sentimental ...
Karen Racine
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