Hi Bernard.

Thinking about the Peninsular War, in your opinion was Wellington a first rate general and his opponents second rate? Or were they equal – but Wellington had that extra bit of luck? If so, could battles such as Talavera and Salamanca been reversed way if ‘luck’ hadn’t played its part? What made me think about this was Napoleon’s fleet narrowly evading Nelson on its way to conquer Egypt; if Nelson had intercepted there and then, there might not have been a Napoleonic Era!

Robert Douglas