WELLINGTON’S DEFENCE OF PORTUGAL AND THE ROLE OF ROBERT CRAUFURD’S LIGHT DIVISION, 1809-12.
Code: KT240
Price: £26.50
Catalogue(s): Franklin
Category(s): Featured, New Books, Our Publications, Napoleonic,
332pp., 29 maps, illus.in text. 2026. The Light Division was a triumph of its three architects: Sir John Moore, the Duke of Wellington & Robert Craufurd. They enabled Wellington to buy time to secure his position in Portugal. This new volumes contains: Shaw Kennedy’s Journal of General Craufurd’s Outpost Operations between the Coa and Agueda in 1810; Wellington’s Dilemma in the Defence of Portugal; Robert Craufurd’s Light Division 1809-12; Extracts from the Diary of Lt Rice Jones RE when he was attached to the Light Division 1811-12