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)