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Mémoires sur la guerre d'Espagne, de 1808 à 1811, 1819.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé-Marie-Gaspard, duc de, 1779-1865.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844.
- Joseph Bonaparte.
- Peninsular War, 1807-1814.
- Spain--History--Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813.
- Spain.
- History.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, French.
- Histories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased from Poursin, 1952.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (356 leaves)
- Other Title:
- Expedition d'Espagne, 1808-1810.
- Place of Publication:
- 1819.
- Language Note:
- In French.
- Summary:
- Account of the Napoleonic Wars in Spain by Clermont-Tonnerre, who was aide-de-camp to Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother and king of Spain during the war. Two extracts from another, unidentified memoir, which serve as an introduction and provide background history before 1808, are not by Clermont-Tonnerre.
- Notes:
- Alternate title from the published edition of another manuscript of the same text (Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1983).
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