dandan noodles wrote:
Citation needed, I think. On the contrary, the French troops in the Peninsula War were the better units. This was why Napoleon was so keen to extract them that he was willing to restore the Spanish monarchy.
When Wellington fought the French, he was almost always fighting second string troops, new conscripts without the training of the Grande Armee that shattered the Prussian state in a matter of hours at Jena-Auerstädt
Citation needed, I think. On the contrary, the French troops in the Peninsula War were the better units. This was why Napoleon was so keen to extract them that he was willing to restore the Spanish monarchy.