ALBUERA EYEWITNESS: Contemporary Accounts of the Battle of Albuera, 16 May 1811

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Details the story of the May 16, 1811 battle in Albuera, Spain, exclusively by way of primary sources, with English translations for foreign language sources, along with, in each case, a commentary identifying the source and its context. These contemporaneous accounts include letters, diaries, official correspondence, army records, maps, newspaper reports and memoirs totaling over 100 contemporary accounts of the battle. They range from the comprehensive after-action reports of the British, Portuguese, Spanish and French commanders to casualty and prisoner lists and to recollections of individual soldiers from all the combatant armies.