The Peninsular War Collection
General Sir Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (1748-1843).
Famed for his victory at Barrosa (1811)
Thomas Lawrence c 1817 (Apsley House Collection)
Lady Mary Cathcart Graham (1757-1792) Graham’s beloved wife whose premature death features in chapter 16 p. 203
Thomas Gainsborough 1777
Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769-1851)
Overran Andalusia and the south (Ch. 16 p.205)
Jean Broc 1805 [Palace of Versailles]
Major-General John Le Gaspard (1766-1812)
Chapter 16 and 17
Henry James Haley c. 1800
Marshal Auguste de Marmont (1774-1852)
Injured at Battle of Salamanca 1812 Ch.17 p. 216
probably by Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne (Tuileries Palace)
Theatres of War
A Glimpse of the Enemy c. 1809
William Barnes Wollen, National Army Museum
The Charge of the Dragoons at the battle of Salamanca 1812
(see John Le Gaspard above)
The Storming of Cuidad Rodrigo 1812
Engraving by James Grant
Wellington’s Triumphal Entrance into Madrid August 1812
Gordon Frederick Browne
The Combatants
British Troops
Light Dragoons
Light Infantry
95th Rifles ‘The Green Jackets’ as portrayed in ‘Sharpe’
Known as ‘The Chosen Men’, such rifle brigades were mostly used as scouts, much as William Light spent his time during the Peninsular War
Wellington and his staff
credit: war history.org
Spanish and Portuguese troops
Spanish Guerilla Officers under Colonel Don Julian Sanchez Garcia, Ch. 18 p 231
Guerrilla warfare in the sierras
Portuguese Infantry
French Troops
French Infantry
French Hussar (cavalry officer) 1811
Adieux to Napoléon 1814
Imperial Generals at Bonaparte’s abdication
Antoine Alphonse Montfort (Palace of Versailles)