" The Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros . Extract from the memories of D. Arana Nicolas Barquin, Abbot of Pechón " , comes to light with the publication of the editorial Evergráficas in Leon in the year of the bicentenary of the Battle. Of course, acknowledge the permission granted by the descendants of Nicolas Barquin for the publication of his memoirs.
This transcription, by Félix Ibáñez Castrillejo Ma, Professor at the University of Burgos takes us across the days before and after the battle. Also gives us the opportunity to visit with the author a moment of history in first person, with the freshness of their own experience and the proximity of a story telling what has happened, is able to provide details of what happened to through information and experiences.
also extends through the composition of the guerrillas in an area as prolific as are the outskirts of Burgos.
This battle is going on 10 and 11 November 1808 as part of the campaign that Napoleon himself was forced to run after the defeat of Bailen. Napoleon would not be allowed to remain unbeaten in doubt.
Blake and Victor face to stop the advance on a and keep at all costs by the other. But Nicholas, who in describing the suffering of people living around this confrontation, who takes us to the hospital fire English provisional casualty inside or taking up of sebum, which treated as a delicacy, it does animals slaughtered by the French in their prey by the defeated country.
As for the battle, to recommend the web http://www.batalladeespinosa.info/la-batalla/ , where you have very good and detailed event information.
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