Duke of Wellington
Warfare
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Napoleon's Battle of Telavera
From 1812, actually Napoleon's starting to take forces out of Spain in order to rebuild the army that he's lost in his disastrous Russia campaign. So initially we're talking 25,000 just the British and then by the time Wellington's really taking the fight to the French in sort of late 1812, 1813, we're talking 60,000, 70,000. How big is that force act just to let us know? So we've gone from 10% of what Napoleon has to around what? Well, at least knew what he was dealing with. Not ideal.
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