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Wardley, T., J. Goacher, S. Neep, S. Fleet, R. White, A. Banks, R. Dale, et al. "Medical and logistics aspects of the Peninsular War, 1808-1814." Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service 103, no. 3 (2017): 206–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jrnms-103-206.

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AbstractFollowing the failure of the French maritime force at the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon sought to dominate Europe through his ‘Continental System’, using large, conscripted, land forces to control nation states and close European ports to British trade. To counter this denial of economic opportunity Britain deployed a large force to the Iberian Peninsula in 1808. Thus ensued the Peninsular War of 1808–14. This article discusses some of the medical advances identified from the war, including force health protection measures, surgical techniques and medical evacuation.

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Hamnett, B. "The Peninsular War: A New History." English Historical Review 119, no. 482 (June 1, 2004): 724–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.482.724.

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Anna, Timothy E. "The Peninsular War: A New History." Hispanic American Historical Review 84, no. 3 (August 1, 2004): 557–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-84-3-557.

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Phipps, John. "Korea: the peninsular origins of the war." International Affairs 67, no. 1 (January 1991): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2621316.

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Hibberd, John. "Kleist's Berliner Abendblatter and the Peninsular War." German Life and Letters 54, no. 3 (July 2001): 220–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00201.

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Hall, Christopher D. "THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE PENINSULAR WAR." Mariner's Mirror 79, no. 4 (January 1993): 403–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1993.10656471.

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Sturgill, Claude C., and Charles Esdaile. "The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War." Hispanic American Historical Review 69, no. 4 (November 1989): 755. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2516106.

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Sturgill, Claude C. "The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War." Hispanic American Historical Review 69, no. 4 (November 1, 1989): 755–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-69.4.755.

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Lynn, John A. "Charles J. Esdaile.Women in the Peninsular War." American Historical Review 120, no. 5 (December 2015): 1984–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.5.1984.

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Ramisa, Maties. "Great Britain's Mediterranean policy during the Peninsular War." Rubrica Contemporanea 9, no. 17 (June 30, 2020): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/rubrica.188.

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Gates, David. "Charles Oman's ‘a history of the Peninsular War’." RUSI Journal 142, no. 1 (February 1997): 54–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071849708446113.

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James, Leighton S. "Charles J. Esdaile, Women in the Peninsular War." European History Quarterly 46, no. 4 (September 2016): 729–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691416658234m.

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Medina Calzada, Sara. "Romantic Strife: The First Carlist War (1833–1840) in British Fiction." International Journal of English Studies 22, no. 2 (December 23, 2022): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.515151.

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British volunteers fought on both sides of the First Carlist War (1833–1840), the dynastic struggle between the liberal factions that championed Isabella II and the reactionary forces that supported Don Carlos’s claim to the Spanish throne. Despite British intervention, the conflict did not arouse as much interest in Britain as the Peninsular War (1808–1814), but it served as the setting for several English literary works that reconstructed it from different perspectives. These fictional texts include George Ryder’s Los Arcos (1845), Frederick Hardman’s The Student of Salamanca (1845–1846), and Edward Augustus Milman’s The Wayside Cross; or, the Raid of Gomez (1847). This paper analyses these texts focusing on their representations of Spain and the First Carlist War and shows that they mostly ignore British intervention in the conflict and perpetuate the romantic image of Spain that had emerged in Britain during the Peninsular War.

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Cha, Victor D. "South Korea in 2004: Peninsular Flux." Asian Survey 45, no. 1 (January 2005): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.2005.45.1.33.

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The variables presaging fundamental change on the Korean Peninsula are many. This assessment of South Korea seeks to lay out the political, economic, and military events of 2004 and their relationship to South Korean grand strategy. It also seeks to analyze the linkages between Seoul's grand strategy and the U.S.-led global war on terror.

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Blanco, Richard L., and David Gates. "The Spanish Ulcer, A History of the Peninsular War." Military Affairs 52, no. 4 (October 1988): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1988459.

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Horward, Donald D., and David Gates. "The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War." American Historical Review 92, no. 2 (April 1987): 433. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1866702.

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Davies, Huw. "Wellington's use of deception tactics in the Peninsular War." Journal of Strategic Studies 29, no. 4 (August 2006): 723–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390600766171.

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Moreira, Cristina, and Jari Eloranta. "Importance of «weak» states during conflicts: Portuguese trade with the United States during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars." Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 29, no. 3 (August 11, 2011): 393–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0212610911000139.

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AbstractThis paper focuses on the analysis of weak states in the international trading system during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic crises, especially on Portugal's trade relations with the United States. We argue that the previous studies of the trade flows during these conflicts have not paid enough attention on smaller actors. Even though the Peninsular War caused severe disruption of agricultural production in Portugal, the United States, despite its strained relations with an ally of Portugal, Great Britain, became a key supplier for the Portuguese market. Clearly, the threatened position of the peninsula, and the need to supply the troops, awarded the Portuguese some room to manoeuvre in the international markets. Total war was not a constraint for all states — economic necessities trumped political and diplomatic concerns during the era of the first real-world wars. This situation was a temporary one, only to change after the conflict.

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Homick, Stephen J., and Alice Berkeley. "New Lights on the Peninsular War: International Congress on the Iberian Peninsula, Selected Papers, 1780-1840." Hispanic American Historical Review 75, no. 4 (November 1995): 734. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2518108.

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Meyer, Jack Allen, and Alice D. Berkeley. "New Lights on the Peninsular War: International Congress on the Iberian Peninsula, Selected Papers, 1780-1840." Journal of Military History 57, no. 3 (July 1993): 546. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2943997.

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Homick, Stephen J. "New Lights on the Peninsular War: International Congress on the Iberian Peninsula, Selected Papers, 1780-1840." Hispanic American Historical Review 75, no. 4 (November 1, 1995): 734–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-75.4.734.

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Gies, David T. "‘Such is Glorious War’: British Reflections on the Peninsular War in Spain (1808–1814)." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 91, no. 9-10 (October 20, 2014): 261–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2014.962923.

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Muñoz Sempere, Daniel. "Susan Valladares. Staging the Peninsular War. English Theatres 1807‒1815." ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies, no. 38 (December 19, 2017): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.38.2017.151-154.

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Connelly, Owen. "Reviews of Books:The Peninsular War: A New History Charles Esdaile." American Historical Review 109, no. 2 (April 2004): 599–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/530481.

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Mitchell, Leslie. "Susan Valladares, Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815." Notes and Queries 63, no. 4 (November 28, 2016): 644–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjw215.

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Gifra-Adroher, Pere. "Witness to the Peninsular War: Sophia Barnard’s Travels in Andalusia." Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, no. 18 (2012): 155–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.25267/cuad_ilus_romant.2012.i18.08.

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Durán López, Fernando. "Susan Valladares, «Staging the Peninsular War. English theatres 1807-1815»." Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, no. 22 (2016): 519–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.25267/cuad_ilus_romant.2016.i22.25.

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Matray, James I. "Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War (review)." Korean Studies 14, no. 1 (1990): 186–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ks.1990.0019.

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Worrall, David. "susan valladares. Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815." Review of English Studies 67, no. 280 (February 5, 2016): 599–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgw007.

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Davies, Huw. "Integration of strategic and operational intelligence during the Peninsular war." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 2 (April 2006): 202–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520600619874.

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Arnold, James R. "A Reappraisal of Column Versus Line in the Peninsular War." Journal of Military History 68, no. 2 (2004): 535–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jmh.2004.0006.

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González, Jonatan. "Susan Valladares, Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815." Romanticism 24, no. 2 (July 2018): 226–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2018.0379.

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Terenas, Gabriela Gândara. "Representations of the Peninsular War in Portuguese and British historical novels." Journal of Romance Studies 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 117–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2021.6.

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The Peninsular War has undergone a process of historical revision from several perspectives (military, social, and political) and simultaneously a fictionalization in the guise of personal narratives or accounts in which the concern for historical accuracy varies greatly. More than two hundred years after the momentous events in Portugal, which played such an important part in determining the future of Europe, it would seem an opportune moment to contribute to the rediscovery of a series of fictional texts inspired by the conflict, many of which have fallen into an unjustified oblivion. This article focuses on Portuguese and British historical novels and the more significant aspects of the fictional representations of Anglo-Portuguese relations during the War.

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Esdaile, Charles. "War and Politics in Spain, 1808–1814." Historical Journal 31, no. 2 (June 1988): 295–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00012899.

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For most British readers, the Peninsular War is synonymous with the campaigns of Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington. That this should be the case is hardly surprising in view of the fascination which they have exercised for many historians at the expense of other aspects of the struggle. In defence of such anglocentrism, it might be argued that British involvement was the decisive factor in the war and, further, that without the duke of Wellington the Iberian Peninsula would never have been freed from French domination. That is true enough, but it is also true that Wellington could never have been successful but for the continued resistance of the Spaniards and the Portuguese. Indeed, it is fair to say that without the thousands of Portuguese soldiers who served in his army, and the indirect assistance provided by the Spaniards in pinning down a large proportion of the French forces, the Duke was so outnumbered that he could never have carried the war into Spain at all. Given that Wellington could probably have maintained a British presence in Portugal almost indefinitely, the Spanish contribution is of particular importance. While the British were still bottled up in Portugal during 1810 and 1811, however, the French all but destroyed the basis for Spanish resistance. Had not the Russian campaign intervened to divert Napoleon's attention eastwards, and with it the vital reinforcements that might have completed the French conquest, Spain could conceivably have been subdued. Wellington's victories of 1812 and 1813 would then have been an impossibility.

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Senterre, Bruno, Ming Yee Chew, and Richard C. K. Chung. "Flora and vegetation of Pulau Babi Tengah, Johor, Peninsular Malaysia." Check List 11, no. 4 (August 21, 2015): 1714. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1714.

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Pulau Babi Tengah is a small granitic island, ca. 106 ha, lying off the south-east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Except for plantation of coconut trees in the early 1900s and deforestation by refugees during the Vietnamese civil war, 1975–1981, the island has not been affected by human development and very few species have been introduced. Recently, a tourist resort has opened in the south and has initiated activities for the conservation of biodiversity. As part of that commitment, an exhaustive inventory of all terrestrial vascular plants has been done. The flora contains 312 taxa with 252 genera and 101 families. Several rare species, known only from this group of islands in Peninsular Malaysia, are recorded, as well as four Peninsular Malaysian endemic species. The most striking characteristic of Pulau Babi Tengah is the rarity of the exotic element, which is restricted to the anthropic areas.

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Fraser, Ronald. "Unknown social identities: Spanish guerrillas in the Peninsular War, 1808–14." International Journal of Iberian Studies 16, no. 2 (October 1, 2003): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijis.16.2.81/0.

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Roosen, William. "The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War. David Gates." Journal of Modern History 60, no. 2 (June 1988): 403–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/600367.

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Van Kooy, Dana. "Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815 by Susan Valladares." Comparative Drama 51, no. 1 (2017): 122–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cdr.2017.0011.

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Watson, Jini Kim. "A Not-yet-postcolonial Peninsula: Rewriting Spaces of Violence, Division and Diaspora." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 1, no. 1 (February 12, 2014): 69–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2013.10.

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In his controversial 2001 novel,The Guest(Sonnim), Hwang Sok-yong tells the story of elderly Korean American Ryu Yosŏp, who embarks on a journey back to his childhood home in Hwanghae province, now North Korea. At once a spatial, temporal, and psychological return, the novel revisits the early years of the Korean War to unveil the truth behind one of the war’s most horrific crimes: the slaughter of 35,000 Korean civilians in the Shinch’on massacre of 1950. In particular, Hwang examines the arrival of the two “guests” of the title—Christianity and Marxism—during the colonial period and their subsequent role in the violence of Shinch’on. By making visible forms of political agency achieved through the assimilation of these two guests, the novel complicates the ideological binaries that appear to have arrested decolonization of the Korean peninsula. Watson’s article reveals how Hwang’s experimental, multivocal narrative structure rewrites usual historical accounts of the Korean War and division by attending to the spatialized production of regions, nation, state, and diaspora. It offers a rethinking of the congealed ideologies, stories, desires, and topologies of this not-yet-postcolonial peninsular.

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Berger Mulattieri, Gonzalo. "The female combatant in the Spanish War." Alcores: Revista de Historia Contemporánea, no. 26 (April 16, 2024): 143–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.69791/rahc.7.

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El objeto de estas páginas es ofrecer una nueva perspectiva, tanto en el ámbito cuantitativo como en el cualitativo, en relación con el colectivo de mujeres que combatieron adscritas a unidades armadas que defendían la causa republicana. El estudio es el resultado del análisis de fuentes documentales y la elaboración de una base de datos que incluye información civil y militar de 3200 mujeres. Se aportan nuevos datos relativos a la afiliación política, distribución y función en los frentes de combate, organización y unidades militares, estado civil, oficio, origen geográfico o edad, así como una aproximación al número de ellas que fallecieron en los frentes que asolaron parte del territorio peninsular entre el 17 de julio de 1936 y el 1 de abril de 1939.

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Mourão, Manuela. "“The most glorious war recorded in the British annals”: Portugal in British Figurations of the Peninsular War." Studies in Romanticism 59, no. 3 (2020): 299–327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/srm.2020.0017.

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Daly, Gavin. "Anglo-French Sieges, the Laws of War, and the Limits of Enmity in the Peninsular War, 1808–1814*." English Historical Review 135, no. 574 (June 2020): 572–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa190.

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Abstract The many sieges of the Napoleonic Wars remain a relatively neglected area of historical study, especially in the context of the history of customary laws of war, where sieges played a central role. This article explores an important but largely forgotten episode in the infamous British storm and sack of the French-held Spanish towns of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz and San Sebastián during the Peninsular War: mercy to the French garrisons, who, in obstinately defending against storming parties, had forfeited their protective rights under prevailing laws of war. Combining military, legal and cultural history, and drawing upon British soldiers’ letters, diaries and memoirs, the article focuses on three interrelated issues: siege capitulation and surrender rituals, attitudes to obstinate defences, and British mercy to the French garrisons. The article highlights sieges as a privileged site for examining laws of war, cultures of war, and moral sensibilities. In doing so, it sheds further light on historical debates about changes and continuities in practices and cultures of war over the long eighteenth century. There has been considerable recent interest in the history of atrocity, massacre and enmity during the French Revolutionary–Napoleonic Wars. Yet the Anglo-French case-studies examined here highlight the persistence of restraint, honour codes, civility and humanity between regular soldiers, even in the seemingly most barbarous of wartime theatres, and despite laws of war that sanctioned violence in these very circumstances.

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FISHER, JOHN. "Charles J. Esdaile, "The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War" (Book Review)." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 68, no. 4 (October 1991): 541. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.68.4.541a.

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James R. Arnold. "Albuera 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War (review)." Journal of Military History 73, no. 2 (2009): 639–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jmh.0.0231.

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Harding, Richard. "Book Review: Wellington's Navy: Sea Power in the Peninsular War 1807–1814." International Journal of Maritime History 17, no. 1 (June 2005): 403–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387140501700183.

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ESDAILE, CHARLES J. "Napoleon's Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular WarBy Ronald Fraser." History 94, no. 314 (April 2009): 247–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229x.2009.453_19.x.

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Dubrulle, Hugh. "The Peninsular War: A New History, by Charles EsdaileThe Peninsular War: A New History, by Charles Esdaile. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. xv, 587 pp. $58.95 Cdn (cloth)." Canadian Journal of History 39, no. 3 (December 2004): 589–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.39.3.589.

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Gordienko, Dmitry O. "«The Peninsular War»: The Anglo-French confrontation in the Pyrenees during the Second Hundred Years’ War (1689–1815)." Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: History. International Relations 21, no. 1 (March 25, 2021): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2021-21-1-60-66.

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The article shows the Anglo-French confrontation on the Iberian Peninsula as an important stage of the Second Hundred years’ War. The example of remote action of the British expeditionary force demonstrates the «English style» of war: the operation of army troops with the active support of the Royal Navy. The author comes to the conclusion that the Pyrenean wars of the beginning of the XIX century have a certain significance in the system of Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

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Moreno-Almendral, Raúl. "Independence and Constitution: The Spanish Nationalization of Personal Experience During the Peninsular War and its Aftermath." European History Quarterly 52, no. 4 (September 28, 2022): 699–719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02656914221120150.

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The deconstruction of the ‘War of Independence’ (1808–1814) as a Spanish nationalist myth was a necessary step in advancing our knowledge of the history of the Age of Revolutions in Spain and of Spanish nation-building itself. However, it set aside those who had in fact experienced those events through a genuine Spanish nationalized lens. Using a corpus of autobiographical sources written between the 1780s and the 1830s, this paper argues that political concepts of Spanish nationhood were already available before the liberal revolution unleashed by the French invasion, that anti-liberals used the language of nationhood in their ego-documents too, and that ideas of independence and constitution pervaded social cleavages and ideological divides. Arguably, then, the War of Independence had both mythical and real dimensions in terms of the history of national identities. Therefore, the great issue in nineteenth-century Spanish nation-building would have not been a congenital ‘lack’ or ‘weakness’ of nationhood but an intense cultural war for its definition along political lines.

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HURL-EAMON, JENNINE. "HABITS OF SEDUCTION: ACCOUNTS OF PORTUGUESE NUNS IN BRITISH OFFICERS' PENINSULAR WAR MEMOIRS." Historical Journal 58, no. 3 (July 24, 2015): 733–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x14000569.

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ABSTRACTIn their published memoirs of the Peninsular War, a surprising number of British officers mentioned visits to Portuguese convents and openly confessed to having flirted with the sisters – occasionally to the point of outright seduction – and abandoned them when the regiment moved on. This seems like a very negative self-fashioning to modern readers, but can best be understood in the context of the political and cultural climate in which these memoirs were produced. This article argues that officers' descriptions of convent visiting and their professions of sympathy for cloistered women revealed the influence of gothic, erotic, romantic, and travel literature on military life writing. Their depiction of nuns differed from nuns’ portrayal by common soldiers due to its infusion with masculine ideals of chivalry and sensibility. Elite memoirists saw no need to justify their abandonment of nuns because they viewed it in light of other literary accounts of soldiers who broke nuns’ hearts. At the same time, they contrasted themselves with the barbarism of the French, believing themselves to be far more compassionate and tolerant of Catholic strictures. Officers’ portrayals of Portuguese sisters can thus also be seen as an expression of Britons’ sense of their relationship with Portugal in the war.

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