| Corunna pits Sir John Moore, Father of the British Infantry, against a determined Marshal Soult, the Duke of Dalmatia. Landing a small British expeditionary force to assist the Spanish rebels against the French has backfired. Napoleon has launched a massive invasion of Spain sending Soult to trap the British.
Forced to abandon his baggage, horses, and wounded in a desperate attempt to reach the coast at Corunna, Sir John finds only a harbor empty of ships. Now he must buy time, for not only the corps of Marshal Soult approaches, which in itself would be an equal contest of arms, but marching just behind him is the corps of Marshal Ney. Which will arrive first, the "Duke of Damnation', as Soult became known to the British troops, or the fleet? |
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