Wellington: Crossing The Gaves And The Battle Of Orthez

IN this book an attempt is made to show how the greatest of modern British Generals planned and carried out the first stages in the execution of the task set him by his Government, namely, to make a further advance into French territory, and thereby render efficient co-operation to the armies of the other Great Powers then about to invade Northern and Eastern France.
The distance between the two spheres of action was too great to permit the hope of active co-operation between the armies un...