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Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of Wellingtons most daring and successful Intelligence Officers. The three men, all of Scottish descent, were very different in character. One was killed in action and another taken prisoner and after narrowly avoiding summary execution made a dramatic escape. There is a romantic angle too.Their stories skillfully interwoven against the backdrop of the brutal Peninsula War where atrocities were common place. This book gives a fresh insight into Wellingtons remarkable triumph over Napoleons armies.… (altro)
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For my husband, Eddy McGrigor, Direct descendant of both Edward Charles Somers Cocks and Colquhoun Grant.
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By the summer of 1808 Napoleon, in a figurative sense, held Europe in the palm of his hand.
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Thus in a theatre, in the conquered French city of Toulouse, did his enemies proclaim the British commander, the 'leopard' whom Napoleon had sworn he would throw back into the sea, who, from the moement of his landing in Portugal on 1 August 1808 had proved himself a military tactician equal, if not superior, to the French emperor who had held all Europe in his thrall.
Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of Wellingtons most daring and successful Intelligence Officers. The three men, all of Scottish descent, were very different in character. One was killed in action and another taken prisoner and after narrowly avoiding summary execution made a dramatic escape. There is a romantic angle too.Their stories skillfully interwoven against the backdrop of the brutal Peninsula War where atrocities were common place. This book gives a fresh insight into Wellingtons remarkable triumph over Napoleons armies.
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