And, excepting the ongoing rumblings of the Peninsular, between 18, when the narrative jumps from Wagram and the treaty Pressburg to the invasion of Russia. And secondly, that for all the talk of continual or 'total' war, there are large periods of relative peace within the bulk of the territories under the Imperial jurisdiction.įor example, between the end of volume one, and the start of volume two, or roughly 1802-1805. no, two things really, were: firstly how minor the Spanish business seems in the larger picture, even though it would ultimately prove, as the suppurating 'Spanish Ulcer', a decisive contributory factor in Napoleon's downfall (a fact not so easily appreciated from the British perspective, with our tendency to obsess over our part in these wars).
One thing that struck me in all this was, well.
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