CONTENTS

SECTION I
Napoleon and the Spanish Bourbons
Chapter PAGE
I. The Treaty of Fontainebleau 1
II. The Court of Spain 12
III. The Conquest of Portugal 26
IV. The French aggression in Spain: Abdication of Charles IV 33
V. The Treachery at Bayonne 43
VI. The Second of May: Outbreak of the Spanish Insurrection 57
SECTION II
The Land and the Combatants
I. Military geography of the Peninsula: Mountains, Rivers, Roads 72
II. The Spanish Army in 1808 89
III. The French Army in Spain 103
IV. The tactics of the French and their adversaries during the Peninsular War 114
SECTION III
Saragossa and Baylen
I. Opening of hostilities: the French Invasions of Andalusia and Valencia 123
II. Operations in the North: the siege of Saragossa 140
III. Operations in the North: battle of Medina de Rio Seco 163
IV. Dupont in Andalusia: the Capitulation of Baylen 176
SECTION IV
The English in Portugal
I. The outbreak of the Portuguese Insurrection 206
II. Landing of the British: combat of Roliça 220
III. Vimiero 242
IV. The Convention of Cintra 263
V. The French evacuate Portugal 279
VI. The Court of Inquiry 291
SECTION V
The Struggle in Catalonia
I. Duhesme’s operations: first siege of Gerona (June-July, 1808) 301
II. The struggle continued: the second siege of Gerona (July-August, 1808) 322
SECTION VI
The Consequences of Baylen
I. The French retreat to the Ebro 334
II. Creation of the ‘Junta General’ 342
III. The ‘Junta General’ in Session 354
IV. An episode in the Baltic 367
SECTION VII
Napoleon’s Invasion of Spain
I. French and Spanish preparations 376
II. The preliminary fighting: arrival of Napoleon 391
III. The misfortunes of Joachim Blake: Zornoza and Espinosa de los Monteros 402
IV. Napoleon crosses the Ebro: the rout of Gamonal: Soult’s pursuit of Blake 417
V. Tudela 431
VI. Passage of the Somosierra: Napoleon captures Madrid 450
SECTION VIII
The Campaign of Sir John Moore
I. Napoleon at Madrid 473
II. Moore at Salamanca 486
III. Moore’s advance to Sahagun 513
IV. Napoleon’s pursuit of Moore: Sahagun to Astorga 539
V. Soult’s pursuit of Moore: Astorga to Corunna 559
VI. The battle of Corunna 583
APPENDICES
I. Godoy’s Proclamation of Oct. 5, 1806 603
II. The Treaty of Fontainebleau 604
III. Papers relating to the ‘Affair of the Escurial’ 606
IV. Abdication of Charles IV 607
V. The Spanish Army in 1808 607
VI. The first French ‘Army of Spain’ 612
VII. Papers relating to the Treachery at Bayonne 616
VIII. Papers relating to the Capitulation of Baylen 618
IX. Papers relating to the Convention of Cintra 625
X. List of Members of the Central Junta 630
XI. The Spanish Armies, Oct.-Nov. 1808 631
XII. The second French ‘Army of Spain’ 640
XIII. The Army of Sir John Moore, its strength and its losses 646
INDEX 649
MAPS
1. Madrid 60
2. Saragossa 160
3. Medina de Rio Seco 168
4. Andalusia and Baylen 184
5. Vimiero 249
6. Catalonia 304
7. Northern Spain 384
8. Espinosa 413
9. Tudela 435
10. Corunna 584
11. Large map of Spain At end of volume
PORTRAITS
1. Charles IV Frontispiece
2. Maria Luisa Queen of Spain 17
3. Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace 41

NOTE

The coins on the binding of the book are—the first a half-dollar of the last issue of Charles IV, the second a siege-piece struck at Gerona in 1808. That on the title-page is a peseta struck at Valencia, with a patriotic legend on the reverse, RENUEVA VAL. SU JURAM. SELLADO CON SU SANGRE.