2-653-339 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Dragoons Rode Onwards, Smiting With Their Long, Glittering Swords', 1902. The Battle of Salamanca, (22 July 1811) was an important victory in the Peninsular War for an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington over Marshal Marmont's French forces. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. II. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1902]