Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates by Charles J. Esdaile

Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates

Charles J. Esdaile

248 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against Napoleon's armies and fell upon them without mercy. From these insurrections we get the modern word "guerrilla", but did armed civilians really play an impo...

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