What/where is the best description of what occurred during this battle other than Oman? I am particularly interested in what the Light Division did, and specifically the actions of the 1/52 Light Infantry in the 2nd Brigade under Vandeleur.
Thanks
I guess you are not interested in the maneuver of Vitoria but only in the Battle of Vitoria. Ok. Sources about the battle:
1st.- Servicio Histórico Militar. Archivo de la Guerra de la Independencia. Colección del Duque de Bailén. Caja nº XXXVI, Legajo nº 54, Carpeta 1 and Caja nº XXXIX, Legajo nº 61, Carpeta 1 (one of the most important Official Records collection about battle of Vitoria).
2nd: Saint Yon, Alexander. Memoire sur la retraite des armées d´Espagne en 1813
3rd: Conde de Toreno. Historia del levantamiento, guerra y revolución de España. Tomo III.
4th: Gómez de Arteche, José. Guerra de la Independencia. Historia militar de España de 1808 a 1814. (Tomos XII and XIII)
5th: Napier, William Francis Patrick. History of the War in the Peninsula and the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814. (Six Volumes). Personally I´ve read it in a French Version. The Battle of Vitoria is in Volumen number X. (I guess number VI in the English edition).
6th. Casse. A. du, Mémoires et correspondence politique et militaire du roi Joseph
7th. Oman, Charles. A History of Peninsula War. (Volumen VI)
8th: Sarramon, Jean.Histoire de la Guerre de l´Independence de la Péninsule Ibérique contre Napoléon Ier. La bataille de Vitoria.
9th: Miot de Melito. Mémoires du comte Miot de Melito, ancien ministre, ambassadeur, conseiller d´état et membre de l´institut
10th: Duke of Wellington. The dispatches of the field marshal the Duke of Wellington
11th: Fortescue. A History of the British Army
12th: Diputación Foral de Álava. La batalla de Vitoria 175 años después.
13th: Repollés Zayas, Julio. El guerrillero Don Julián Sánchez, brigadier de caballería.
14th: Murray, George, Sir. Memoir annexed to an Atlas, containing plans of the principle battles, sieges, and affairs, in which the British Troops were engaged during the War in the Spanish Peninsular and in the south of France from 1808 to 1814
15th: Jourdan Jean-Baptiste. Mémoires militaires du maréchal Jourdan (guerre d'Espagne), écrits par lui-même.
16th: Thiers, Adolph. Histoire de l´Empire (Volumen 3)
17th: Jomini. Antoine-Henri. Vie politique et militarie de Napoléon
18th: Sánchez Arjona. Ciudad Rodrigo en la Guerra de la Independencia.
19th: Rodríguez Villa, Antonio. El teniente general Don Pablo Morillo
20th: Gurwood. Recueil choisi des dépêches et des ordres du jour du Feld-Maréchal Duc de Wellington
21st: Prieto Llovera, Patricio. El grande de España capitán general Castaños
22nd: Hugo, Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert
. Mémoires du général Hugo
23rd: Iribarren. Espoz y Mina. El Liberal.
24th: Victoires, conquêtes, désastres, revers et guerres civiles des Français, de 1792 à 1815.
Osprey is very nice and interesting (unfortunatly only the British point of view). You should read Spanish, French, Portuguese and British views about the battle.. as I do in WW1.
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