Download or read book History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Southey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1 of 3 A list of the printed documents which have been consulted in this work will be appended to the last volume. For the private sources of information which have been open to him, the author must content himself here with making a general acknowledgement. They are such as might entitle him to assert, that since the publication of Strada's Decades, no history com posed by one who was not an actor in it, has appeared with higher claims to authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.