A key figure in this conflict was George Scovell, who led the Army Guides in breaking the other side's codes, and it saw a battle where forces under Schramm switched sides and joined with Reding.
A key figure in this conflict was George Scovell, who led the Army Guides in breaking the other side's codes, and it saw a battle where forces under Schramm switched sides and joined with Reding. Dupont's surrender agreement was ignored and prisoners were sent to Isla de Cabrera after that battle, fought at Bailen. Jean Reyner's successful hit-and-run tactics during this conflict were wasted by men like Jean-Andoch Junot and Andre Massena, whose defeat while trying to break the second siege of a pivotal city in this conflict prompted Antoine Brenier to detonate its fortifications. Major Costa and Colonel Fletcher helped design the central (*) fortification system of this conflict, the Lines of Torres Vedras. The Battle of Salamanca swung the tide of this conflict, whose decisive blow was delivered at Vitoria to a man who had usurped Ferdinand VII and styled himself as "Joseph I" of the local kingdom. FTP, identify this 1808-1814 war that deposed Joseph Bonaparte and showcased the military genius of the Duke of Wellington, named for the type of landmass on which it occurred, Iberia.
A key figure in this conflict was George Scovell, who led the Army Guides in breaking the other side's codes, and it saw a battle where forces under Schramm switched sides and joined with Reding.
{Peninsular} War (also accept {Spanish} War or War of {Spanish Independence} or any of those things in French)