The Peninsular has it all!

[has.been]

Certainly variety of scale, even in fiction.
Author of Horneblower also wrote about a lone Rifleman trapped behind French lines,
while at the other end you have Gregory Peck dragging an ENORMOUS cannon across
Spain (helped by Sophia Lorrain, Frank Sinatra and THOUSANDS of extras) I would love
to see the scene, with the gun hidden in a religious procession, wargamed in 28mm.   

[vodkafan]

That would be cool

[Harry Faversham]

I might never get on to the Waterloo stuff....

You will if you have a pop at Henry's other little epic!



 

[rumacara]

Thank you for the kind words James and Tony.
Anytime just email or pm and i see what i can do to help.

Its really annoying even for me in my own language that there is little written about the importance of Portugal in the napoleonic wars. There are certainly lots of curiosities and facts about the portuguese involvement and the real percentage in Wellingtons army that we probably wont know.
On my investigations along the years i reenacted the 6th caçadores i came to the reality that 10 per cent of the portuguese population disapeared on the napoleonic armies passage.
On a reality of 2 million people at the time, 200,000 died both in battle, desease and unger (yes, more than 40,000 people died by unger behind the Lines of Torres Vedras mostly women and children from the center of the country from the área of Coimbra).
Lots of vilages simply disapeared because the habitants where slaughtered or runned for their lives never to get back.

Of course this is the cruel side of any war but definetly the portuguese went into France and Paris with Wellington and they where praised for their valor both by allies and enemies.

The Peninsula War still have lots of stuff to be discussed, discovered and explored.

[vtsaogames]

I think at Salamanca Wellington's army was about 40% Portuguese. Certainly that was about the percent of infantry.