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.