Summary:

Professor Bruce Collins will speak on the research for his new book: ‘Wellington and the Siege of San Sebastian, 1813’ (Pen & Sword Military, 2017). His reassessment of the Wellington's siege puts the events of San Sebastian into the broader context of siege warfare during the Napoleonic Wars. San Sebastian was a key objective which had to be secured to allow the allied army to push into Southern France following the successful battle of Vitoria, and Professor Collins's research draws on a number of original sources to assess how this complex operation unfolded. His work offers a new understanding of this important siege which marked the beginning of the end of the Peninsular War (1808-14).

Speaker:

Bruce Collins is Professor of Modern History at Sheffield Hallam University. He has written widely on nineteenth-century American politics and the origins of the American Civil War, and British power and imperialism in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Please RSVP  william.fletcher@kcl.ac.uk

This event is hosted by the  Society for Army Historical Research