The Peninsular War: The Battle of Vimeiro and Defeat of the French

In the second part of my deep dive into the Peninsular war of 1808-1814, we follow Sir Arthur Wellesley and his small expeditionary force as they tackle Portugal's French occupiers. We examine the battle of Vimeiro - can Wellesley prove his mettle against "Boney's invincibles" or will he and his men be pushed back into the sea?
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[@britishmuzzleloaders]

Not an expert, just interested in the arms of the period. :-) However,.... If you'll have me, I'll be along for sure! Great presentation!

[@redcoathistory]

britishmuzzleloaders fantastic Rob - can’t wait!

[@johnpotter4750]

Love it - Salvo fire and fall on - A battallia appears out of the rolling smoke 20 paces away - gleam blades flash full sore... Oh, for a long blade for my battered Matchlock...

[@andygeorgeparkinson2515]

Another excellent and entertaining episode. Very much enjoying the Series.

[@deeppurple883]

You've got it into your head that you need to change voice and carictor when changing to each person taking in turn, you don't.. Stick with one voice and make that you trade mark, one voice with caviats to enfacise point's of divination. Check out the voice that does the voice for 18th century England in the ghettos, its real distinctive. You probably heard it being in the game. 👯‍♀️🤫

[@tomcarroll7382]

Exciting, excellent, smashing oh and a bit of slashing. And lots of musket fire.

[@OscarGomez-hx8zc]

Chris thank you for the video, excellent!

[@redcoathistory]

Thanks a lot, Oscar. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

[@simonhill5405]

As usual, an excellent and enlightening picture of the Battle of Vimeiro. I think that it would be very interesting to have the French perspective as well. Could we have a separate Redcoat podcast from a French point of view? I am sure that some of Napoleon's marshals wrote in their memoirs about the Peninsular War. Captain Coignet was also in Spain, although quite briefly.

[@johnnoneya223]

great way to escape the Lockdown, hearing about how we gave the French what for Huzzzah

[@andrewjames5738]

Another excellent episode. as we follow your series. Great work, our thanks again.

[@redcoathistory]

Thanks Andy - that means a lot.

[@RoyalFusilier]

First episode of this I happened to catch, very interested to check out more episodes. Good stuff here. Like almost all Americans, I exclusively know the events of the Napoleonic Wars from old broadcasts of Sharpe and Hornblower, as well as some hundreds of hours playing Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars. So it will be fun to learn something of the actual, real history too-

[@redcoathistory]

That's great I'm glad you've enjoyed it and I hope you find the other episodes interesting 👍🏻

[@shawngarratt2887]

As usual really Injoyed listening to this ! Well done my friend 👍

[@redcoathistory]

Cheers, Shawn.

[@joehudgens7330]

Another excellent episode. I think when I get to go there, I’ll have this playing.

[@redcoathistory]

Brilliant Cheers Joe. Have you visited the battlefields before? I haven't but I'd love to.

[@joehudgens7330]

I haven’t. It was on my itinerary this year. Hopefully next year!

[@reicethornhill2627]

I have listened to your podcast back to front love it. And the videos oh course

[@redcoathistory]

Thanks Reice. Brilliant to hear that you are enjoying - the next episode will be out at the start of June.

[@martinrwhite]

Excellent- many thanks 🙏🏻

[@carloseduardopereiraarraio5283]

And so ended the myth of napoleaon invencibility

[@steveconway1948]

Good listen, very much enjoyed it.

[@pathardage1880]

Very much enjoying your channel. Thank you.

[@redcoathistory]

Thanks, Pat!

[@ralphraffles1394]

Excellent work.

[@lornamiddlestead2065]

Greatly enjoyed and well detailed

[@FranciscoPreira]

Never a General had such a sugestive name "Burrard", in portuguese the word "burro" means donkey, and the name Burrard can be used to nice quibble, do to the action of Sir Harry regarding the "Convention of Sintra", great video Chris.

[@nhinha-zf6xx]

Well done! Vimeiro is spelled like Vim[hey]ro

[@redcoathistory]

Cool - I will know for next time. Thanks

[@bengunns9500]

Just read about the Baker Rifle sounds like it was a game changer.

[@redcoathistory]

Nice one mate - you'll be pleased to hear that in January or February i'll be posting an episode all about the Baker.

[@bengunns9500]

@@redcoathistory look forward to it mate

[@matikramer9648]

Thank you

[@redcoathistory]

You're welcome

[@tomtom21194]

Letting the French leave with loot and cannon after they butchered and assaulted so many civilians was truly a disgrace. You could argue transport and personal arms to be retained in return for a fee, but to give the French everything they wanted. They must have been laughing all the way home

[@selimgokalp5155]

French soldiers after the battle be like : Thank you rosbeefs for free transport, we will not have to cross Spain again

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

Just saying but I would love to see something like this but on pontiacs war and I am interested in pontiacs war because I play the tenor and sometimes the base drum in a bagpipe and drum band that is named after the 42nd regiment of foot aka the black watch and I am interested in the war because near present day Harrison city pa a force of 500 redcoats which was made up of the 42nd Highlanders regiment of foot aka the black watch, the 77th Highlanders and the 1/60th royal Americans opposing them was a force of between 110 and 500 American Indians and the battle was a British victory but i kept asking myself how did the redcoats defeat a force of American Indians when back during the French and Indian war the Indians defeated the redcoats at the battle of the mongohalea and also at Fort William Henry.

[@noahgibsonspeninsularwarsa1134]

Good. 👍

[@redcoathistory]

Thanks Noah.

[@noahgibsonspeninsularwarsa1134]

@@redcoathistory You're welcome.

[@johnwayneeverett6263]

12:40 min . Into this wooo

[@webster169]

Love how your generic English accent is a perfect impression of Gary Lineker

[@redcoathistory]

Fellow Leicester lad!

[@EK-gr9gd]

Junot never got his baton! He was just a general du division.

[@George_M_]

Man, attacking defensive positions seems insane at this point. Especially given the terrain. Could the French just...not attack here?

[@jochannon]

Junot had a small force, and knew that the British might receive reinforcements from the sea, so he hoped to beat them quickly before that happened.

[@cuebj]

​@jochannon And lots of experience of not being resisted. Surprised that British stood firm. If Wellesley had not been senior officer when battle started, Junot would have been justified in his attack. Ironically, Junot's early attack meant he faced Wellesley, not the commanding officer, Bullard

[@kevinporter3212]

It's pronounced "Vim ay ro"

[@cuebj]

Make an effort. As a 68-year-old Brit, I'm ashamed of such a weak attempt at French names and words. There all sorts of resources to help you. Shame you never did languages st school. We used to do French from age 8 then German. Also Latin and Greek - and I was a scientist

[@redcoathistory]

I guess we aren’t all as clever as you mate. Keep up the great work.

[@eddiel7635]

As a 44 year old Brit, I’m ashamed at your whinging over some fantastic free content that somebody has clearly spent care and time over. It’s a shame you weren’t taught any manners at school.

[@aneececolt]

you should demand your money back.