Re-fighting the Battle of Vimeiro
Wellington’s positioning was as good as Waterloo and Bussaco. I’ve redesigned this battle many times using the core scenarios from the John Tiller game “ Bonaparte’s Peninsular War .” This time though, I’ve updated the map, decreased the size of the map and focused on Wellington’s positioning by relying upon the first-hand accounts of the battle rather than the JTS original setup. I’ve concluded that even if GD Jean Junot had attacked in a unified fashion against Wellington (instead of the piecemeal fashion that he did), Wellington would have held his ground with the three brigades he had in and around Vimeiro: Fane, Ferguson and Anstruther (with Acland’s as a late reinforcement); against the entire French Army of Portugal. Redesigning the Map Above is the new battlefield map. I’ve focused on Vimeiro and the eastern approach that Junot took and I did not include Ventosa Farm and the upper valley that Solignac and Brenier’s brigades blundered into....