Surrender at New Orleans: General Sir Harry Smith in the Peninsula and America

A history of the marriage of Sir Harry Smith to Lady Smith, who accompanied him on British military campaigns throughout the world in the 19th century.

General Sir Harry Smith, respected and beloved by the Duke of Wellington, famously married the Spanish beauty, Juana, after the siege of Badajoz in 1812. Juana choose to stay with her husband for the remaining battles of the Peninsula war. With the French defeated, Harry left with the British expedition to America in 1814, and witnessed t...