The Waters of Oblivion: The British Invasion of the Rio de la Plata, 1806-1807 (Spellmount/Nutshell military list)

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On 7th July 1807 Lieutenant-General John Whitelocke stood amid the burning wreckage of a few houses in Buenos Aires as he contemplated the terms of a give up document to which he was once about to put his name. It was once the final act in Britain’s disastrous attempt to add the Spanish colony of the Rio de la Plata to the possessions of His Britannic Majesty King George III. After two days of intense street fighting, the British army had been forced to give up to a South American army, thought to be by them to be nothing more than a rabble. It was once to be some of the shameful yet difficult to understand campaigns ever fought by a British army. This strange Napoleonic campaign sees the British army in action at the eve of the Peninsular War and features such notables as William Carr Beresford, later one of Wellington’s most trusted generals, and Robert “Black Bob” Craufurd, who led the Great Duke’s Light Division. In the beginning published in 1991 this book was once the first attempt in Britain for the reason that campaign to tell its story in a single volume, drawing from English and Spanish sources.

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