South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815); yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea β broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands β France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean.
Napoleons Balkan Troops
β Scribed by Vladimir Brnardic
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing Ltd
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 51
- Series
- Men-at-Arms 410
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars; yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea β broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands β France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean.
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South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815); yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea β broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands β France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean.
South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars; yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea ΠΡΠ²βΒ¬" broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands ΠΡΠ²βΒ¬" France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean. H
South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815); yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea β broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands β France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean.
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