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La gesta de los zapadores. The Spanish royal regiment of sappers (Regimiento Real de Minadores-Zapadores) abandon Alcalá de Henares on May 24, 1808, to join the loyalist cause in Valencia. The Battle of Chiclana, 5th March 1811 (1824) captures the fight between British redcoats and the French troops for Barosa Ridge. A bloodbath that might […]

Second of May 1808: the defenders of Monteleón make their last stand. Penned up inside Portugal, the British, meanwhile, could do nothing to arrest the march of French conquest, and much the same was true of the Spanish guerrillas, who at the same time were coming under more and more pressure. In the end, indeed, […]