Battle of Corunna. 16th January 1809. (Battle of Corunna : 16th January 1809) 1848

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Old map of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

14, a conflict that is referred to in Spain as the Guerra de la Independencia (War of Independence). The war pitted the armies of Britain, Spain, and Portugal against the Napoleonic armies of the First French Empire in a fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula. This map appeared in the Atlas to Alison's History of Europe, the result of a collaboration between historian Archibald Alison (1792-1867) and the Scottish geographer and cartographer Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-71). Scale is marked in military steps (1 military step = 0.76 meter) and in miles (1 mile = 1.61 kilometers), and north is oriented to the left. The British initially did not fare well in the campaign, and in December 1808 they retreated at speed toward La Coruña to be evacuated by the fleet. There the exhausted British troops commanded by Major General Sir John Moore, who died on the field of battle, faced numerically superior French forces under Marshal Soult. The French attack was driven off sufficiently for the British to be able to embark on the transports for home that night and the next day. The British army returned to the Iberian Peninsula in May 1809 under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, later first Duke of Wellington.
Created by Archibald Alison, Alexander Keith Johnston, William Johnston in 1848.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : lithograph, black-and-white ; 19 x 24 centimeters.
• Original resource at: Library of Galicia.
• Content in English.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Map Subjects

01-16

A Coruña

Battlefields

Battles

Galicia

La Coruña Battle Of La Coruña Spain

Napoleonic Wars

Peninsular War

Spain

Archibald Alison

Alexander Keith Johnston

William Johnston

1848