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Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates

By Charles Esdaile

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
1403938261, 9781403938268
Open Library ID
OL11642587M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
711 kB (728113 bytes)
Pages
248\248
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against Napoleon's armies and fell upon them without mercy. From these insurrections we get the modern word "guerrilla", but did armed civilians really play an important a role in the struggle? In this collection of essays a group of specialists on the Napoleonic epoch tease out the question, and arrive at some startling conclusions.

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