Spain on the Precipice

Everett Rummage covers the Spanish Patriot cause hitting rock bottom in late 1809 — disaster upon disaster on the battlefield while Wellington calculates whether to fight on without functional allies. Strong on the triangular dynamic between French imperial overstretch, Spanish collapse, and British strategic patience that defined the Peninsular War's middle act. Nearly an hour, and Rummage's narrative pacing is consistently good.

Everett Rummage covers late 1809 in the Peninsula — disaster piling on disaster for the Spanish Patriots while Wellington digs in and the French struggle with the costs of sustaining their Iberian campaign. This is the kind of operational-strategic context for the Peninsular War that rarely gets proper attention: the grinding middle phase where the campaign's outcome was genuinely uncertain. Nearly an hour of focused Napoleonic content.