History of the Peninsular War, Volume 2 (of 6)

The volume chronicles military operations and civilian responses across the Iberian Peninsula during the French invasion, detailing sieges and urban resistance, a fierce defence of a besieged city with prominent popular and female exertions, widespread Portuguese and Spanish insurrections, French reprisals and sackings, and the arrival and actions of British forces culminating in battles, an armistice, and a controversial convention. It interweaves operational narrative and tactical movements with accounts of partisan and peasant activity, diplomatic exchanges, the formation of provincial and central juntas, and episodes of civic suffering to show how war transformed political authority and everyday life.