"Pre-Peninsular French against the Spanish books" Topic

Funny how one things leads to another. After recently ordering some Perry French Revolutionary miniatures, I've become more interested in the earlier campaigns. I've read and bought quite a bit on the Peninsular period and various battles etc but have read little on the earlier pre-Peninsular campaigns between the French and Spanish. I came across a very interesting article online by Michael C. Hamel, which discussed the campaign of the Rosellon Army, with The Art of War of Revolutionary France by Paddy Griffiths and The Armies of the First French Republic (Vol 3) by Ramsey Phipps noted as part of the source material employed. Those two books on now on my to buy list. I just wondered if anyone had any suggestions for further reading of the early actions and campaigns between Spain and France?

@Gazzola,

Some suggestions below:

Le général Dagobert (1736-1794): l'armée sous l'ancien régime et sous la Révolution, Nice et Sospel, les combats devant Perpignan, la conquête de la Cerdagne, représentants et généraux à l'armée des Pyrénées-Orientales, la Seu d'Urgel
Arthur Chuquet
Paris 1913
link

Campagnes de la révolution française dans les Pyrénées Orientales, 1793-1794-1795
Joseph Napoléon Fervel
J. Dumaine, Paris 1861
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
Atlas link

Ian

Thanks for that Ian. They look very interesting, although I would have to see if there were any translations into English.

Gazzola,
I am not aware of any English translations of the two works nor any detailed accounts of the campaign in English.

One further work in French:

Mémoires sur la dernière guerre entre la France et l'Espagne, dans les Pyrénées occidentales . Par le cit. B***
Beaulac
Treuttel et Würtz, Paris 1801
link (map is folded out)

Ian

Gazzola,

Useful website in English link

The Roussillon Campaign of 1793-94: Spain's Lost Opportunity
This post is a part of the 2023 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE's board alongside editors at Age of Revolutions.
By Michael C. Hamel

or can be downloaded as a pdf link

In spanish:

Diario de las operaciones del ejército español que entró en Francia por el Rosellón
Duque de Sessa
Ricardo Heredia, Conde de Benahavis
link

Also in Spanish but no trace of a downloadable version):
Campañas en los Pirineos a finale̜s del siglo XVIII, 1793-1795
Servicio Histórico Militar, Madrid 1949
(4 volumes in total)

Another volume in French:

Mémoires du général Noguès (1777-1853), sur les guerres de l'Empire publiés par le baron André de Maricourt
Antoine Noguès
A. Lemerre, Paris 1922
link

Ian

Thanks Ian

Yes, I've read Hamel's article online. That was the one I mentioned in my first post. Very interesting. It made me want to read and find out more about the earlier French vs Spanish actions. Other than that I'll have to learn French or Spanish.

See my list of a few more books here on TMP I just posted: TMP link

Happy to see a bump in interest in this theatre and period(s). BTW, all are in English.

Thanks Dye4minis. I have always been interested in the French Revolutionary period, as well as the Napoleonic campaigns, history etc. And there seems to be a bit of an increase in the interest of this period at the moment, which is nice to see. I think my interest has also been ignited by getting, as a Father's Day present, The Illustrated Campaigns of the French Revolution 1789-1801 by Dr. Stephen Summerfield, brought out recently by Ken Trotman Publishing.

Might have to grab that one, Gazzola! Everything I have from Dr. Summerfield is top shelf for me.

Dye4minis – The images are great and when you look close there is so much going on in some of the scenes that you see something new every time you view them. Well worth having.