…Triumph by Pierre Juhel.
Old, but interesting review.
"This book has been on my radar for some time. But it's been several years in the publishing, so to say I was excited when it arrived in the post was understating the case. That it turned out to be something of a curate's egg may simply be over-expectation on my part.
The problem with battles fought solely between French and Spanish armies is that accounts of them in English are rare. And this one's a biggie, because Ocana is chiefly memorable for the largest cavalry action, in terms of the total number of combatants, during the entire Peninsular war. Yet one Spanish monograph apart, little has been written about the affair.
I suppose that's understandable to a degree. Despite it being a great French victory, the war in Iberia was ultimately considered a pretty futile sideshow to cataclysmic events elsewhere in Napoleonic Europe. British historians never really took an interest because Wellington's small army was not involved and for the Spanish, Ocana was a huge disaster so best swept quietly under the carpet…"
Full review here.
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Amicalement
Armand
goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
