With Moore at Corunna

Historical novel, set in Portugal, during the Peninsular War, in which the British battled the armies of Napoleon. The Preface begins: "From the termination of the campaigns of Marlborough--at which time the British army won for itself a reputation rivaled by that of no other in Europe--to the year when the despatch of a small army under Sir Arthur
Wellesley marked the beginning of another se...