Charles J Esdaile
Biographic Data
| ID | 719895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles J Esdaile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles J |
| FAMILY NAME | Esdaile |
| SIGNATURE | ESDAILE C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Italy in the Era of Total War
The Napoleonic Mediterranean
In the two hundred years that have passed since the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, the epoch to which he gave his name—an accolade unique in the historical usage: we do not, for example, speak of the years from 1933 to 1945 as the Hitlerian age—has become one of the most well-studied periods in European history. Thus, the flood of publications has been boundless and continues to flow unchecked. However, until relatively recently, the vast majority …
David Buttery, Napoleon’s Paris
Recent Writings on the Military History of Spain’s Civil War
Spying for Wellington
Traditionally, the Napoleonic Wars have been remembered for the scale of their military operations, the panoply of their uniforms and the genius of their leading military commanders, not to mention the drama of such battles as Austerlitz, Borodino and Waterloo. This, however, was but the surface of the conflict: behind the scenes, there was another war, namely one of espionage and counter-espionage, propaganda and counter-propaganda and plot and …
Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon
The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents
The brief war that took place between Spain and Portugal in 1762 is one of the least known episodes in the latter’s military history, whereas, thanks to Wellington’s construction of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the French invasion of 1810–11 is right at the other end of the spectrum. Yet the two episodes are closely linked to one another. At the very least, they are uncannily reminiscent in terms of their details – in both cases substantial foreig…
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte is a figure who continues to inspire and repel by equal measure, and the net result is the continued publication in English of a seemingly endless stream of biographies, not to mention studies of his numerous battles and campaigns and, rather less frequently, the empire that he created. Among this great torrent, however, there has been a somewhat surprising omission. Thus, not since 2002 has a collection of Napoleon’s military …
The British Army in the Napoleonic Wars
Britain against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory 1793‒1815. By ROGER KNIGHT (London: Allen Lane, 2013; pp. xxxviii + 678. £30); All the King’s Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket. By SAUL DAVID (London: Penguin Books, 2013; pp. xvii + 573. £9.99); All for the King’s Shilling: The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808‒1814. By EDWARD J. COSS (Norman, OK: U. of Oklahoma P., 2010; pp. xxiv + 374. $39.95); Sickness, Sufferin…
Guerrillas and bandits in the Serranía de Ronda, 1810-1812
The Spanish Guerrilla (1808–1812) which has given its name to ideologically motivated insurgencies is usually portrayed as a patriotic uprising against the French occupation forces of Napoleon. It was that, in part, but also many other things besides. This case study illustrates its overlap and convergence with banditry but also with social unrest turned into uprisings directed by poor Spaniards against their creditors, as in the storming of Rond…
Napoleon’s Atlantic
Some one hundred years ago, the British Napoleonic specialist John Holland Rose opined that, insofar as the period 1799 – 1815 was concerned, the history of Napoleon was the history of the world. As the current reviewer has observed elsewhere, this remark was utter nonsense: Napoleon and his wars were a European phenomenon that only impinged tangentially, if at all, upon many contemporary developments in the wider world. That said, given that sev…
Napoleon's Cursed War
De-Constructing the French Wars
The Emperor Napoleon I is regarded as one of the greatest generals of all time and, as such, he has attracted an immense bibliography. In spite of this, there have been few studies of him as a strategist: instead, it is simply assumed that it was enough for the Emperor to have conducted an operation for it to have had a logical strategic goal. In this article, however, Napoleon is shown to have been primarily an opportunist, who was frequently gu…
The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War
Exactly one hundred years before the British battalion of the famous International Brigades set out to fight Franco in February 1937, another force of British volunteers was fighting in another Spanish civil war. This time, however, the conflict—the First Carlist War of 1833–9—was to be much less well known, while the men concerned were a very different force. At the same time, unlike the volunteers of 1937, the troops of 1837 were in Spain with …
Popular Resistance in the French Wars
In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. So, at least, runs the usual claim. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outr
L'Utopie Reactionnaire
Journal Article L’Utopie Réactionnaire: Epuration et modernisation de l’Etat dans l’Espagne de la fin de l’Ancien Régime ( 1823–1834) Get access Charles Esdaile Charles Esdaile Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 483, September 2004, Pages 1071–1072, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.483.1071 Published: 01 September 2004
The Paraguayan War. vol. 1, Causes and Early Conduct
The Great Paraguayan War of 1864–70 was the bloodiest conflict ever waged in South America, comparable in scale to the American Civil War. Indeed, in some ways it was worse: well over half the population of Paraguay was killed in battle or died of disease and starvation, and prisoners were regularly tortured or massacred. Great battles were fought with weapons ranging from flintlock muskets to modern breech-loading rifles that reinforced the less…
The French Wars, 1792-1815
The Waterloo Campaign
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHARLES J. ESDAILE CHARLES J. ESDAILE University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 1010–1011, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.1010 Published: 01 September 1998
Spain at War
Spain at War
Historia de la Asociacion Catolica Nacional de Propagandistas. Volume 1. De la dictadura a la Segunda Republica, 1923-1936
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHARLES ESDAILE CHARLES ESDAILE University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 257-a–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.257-a Published: 01 January 1993
The Duke of Wellington and the Command of the Spanish Army, 1812-14
The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War
Exactly one hundred years before the British battalion of the famous International Brigades set out to fight Franco in February 1937, another force of British volunteers was fighting in another Spanish civil war. This time, however, the conflict—the First Carlist War of 1833–9—was to be much less well known, while the men concerned were a very different force. At the same time, unlike the volunteers of 1937, the troops of 1837 were in Spain with …
War and Politics in Spain, 1808–1814
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 We…
War and Politics in Spain, 1808–1814
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 We…
De Palas a Minerva
De Palas a Minerva
Wellington and the Military Eclipse of Spain, 1808–1814
peninsular war of 1808-14 may justly be regarded as the true foundation of the duke of Wellington's military reputation, raising him from the level of a mere 'sepoy general' to the position of foremost British commander of his age. The object of this essay is by no means an attempt, to paraphrase the man himself, to pick holes in Wellington's jerkin. Indeed, it is founded upon the belief that the liberation of the Iberian Peninsula was in the las…
The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War
The Duke of Wellington and the Command of the Spanish Army, 1812-14
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHARLES ESDAILE CHARLES ESDAILE University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 257-a–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.257-a Published: 01 January 1993
Historia de la Asociacion Catolica Nacional de Propagandistas. Volume 1. De la dictadura a la Segunda Republica, 1923-1936
Spain at War
Spain at War
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHARLES J. ESDAILE CHARLES J. ESDAILE University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 453, September 1998, Pages 1010–1011, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.1010 Published: 01 September 1998
The Waterloo Campaign
The French Wars, 1792-1815
L'Utopie Reactionnaire
Journal Article L’Utopie Réactionnaire: Epuration et modernisation de l’Etat dans l’Espagne de la fin de l’Ancien Régime ( 1823–1834) Get access Charles Esdaile Charles Esdaile Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 483, September 2004, Pages 1071–1072, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.483.1071 Published: 01 September 2004
The Paraguayan War. vol. 1, Causes and Early Conduct
The Great Paraguayan War of 1864–70 was the bloodiest conflict ever waged in South America, comparable in scale to the American Civil War. Indeed, in some ways it was worse: well over half the population of Paraguay was killed in battle or died of disease and starvation, and prisoners were regularly tortured or massacred. Great battles were fought with weapons ranging from flintlock muskets to modern breech-loading rifles that reinforced the less…
Popular Resistance in the French Wars
In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. So, at least, runs the usual claim. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outr
The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War
Exactly one hundred years before the British battalion of the famous International Brigades set out to fight Franco in February 1937, another force of British volunteers was fighting in another Spanish civil war. This time, however, the conflict—the First Carlist War of 1833–9—was to be much less well known, while the men concerned were a very different force. At the same time, unlike the volunteers of 1937, the troops of 1837 were in Spain with …
De-Constructing the French Wars
The Emperor Napoleon I is regarded as one of the greatest generals of all time and, as such, he has attracted an immense bibliography. In spite of this, there have been few studies of him as a strategist: instead, it is simply assumed that it was enough for the Emperor to have conducted an operation for it to have had a logical strategic goal. In this article, however, Napoleon is shown to have been primarily an opportunist, who was frequently gu…
Napoleon's Cursed War
Napoleon’s Atlantic
Some one hundred years ago, the British Napoleonic specialist John Holland Rose opined that, insofar as the period 1799 – 1815 was concerned, the history of Napoleon was the history of the world. As the current reviewer has observed elsewhere, this remark was utter nonsense: Napoleon and his wars were a European phenomenon that only impinged tangentially, if at all, upon many contemporary developments in the wider world. That said, given that sev…
Guerrillas and bandits in the Serranía de Ronda, 1810-1812
The Spanish Guerrilla (1808–1812) which has given its name to ideologically motivated insurgencies is usually portrayed as a patriotic uprising against the French occupation forces of Napoleon. It was that, in part, but also many other things besides. This case study illustrates its overlap and convergence with banditry but also with social unrest turned into uprisings directed by poor Spaniards against their creditors, as in the storming of Rond…
The British Army in the Napoleonic Wars
Britain against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory 1793‒1815. By ROGER KNIGHT (London: Allen Lane, 2013; pp. xxxviii + 678. £30); All the King’s Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket. By SAUL DAVID (London: Penguin Books, 2013; pp. xvii + 573. £9.99); All for the King’s Shilling: The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808‒1814. By EDWARD J. COSS (Norman, OK: U. of Oklahoma P., 2010; pp. xxiv + 374. $39.95); Sickness, Sufferin…
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte is a figure who continues to inspire and repel by equal measure, and the net result is the continued publication in English of a seemingly endless stream of biographies, not to mention studies of his numerous battles and campaigns and, rather less frequently, the empire that he created. Among this great torrent, however, there has been a somewhat surprising omission. Thus, not since 2002 has a collection of Napoleon’s military …
Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon
The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents
The brief war that took place between Spain and Portugal in 1762 is one of the least known episodes in the latter’s military history, whereas, thanks to Wellington’s construction of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the French invasion of 1810–11 is right at the other end of the spectrum. Yet the two episodes are closely linked to one another. At the very least, they are uncannily reminiscent in terms of their details – in both cases substantial foreig…
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