The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in
France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have
been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the
fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate
theater of the conflict. Gareth Glover sets this right with a compelling
account of the struggle on land and at sea for control of a region that
was critical for the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars. The story of this
twenty-year conflict is illustrated with numerous quotes from a large
number of primary sources, many of which are published here for the
first time.