These have been on my "to-do" list for a long time (I've had the figures in my pile-o'-plastic for a couple of years now!
) after reading about the bloody Battle of Albuera, one of my favourite battles of the period. Beyond all expectations, the Spanish troops held the line against the bulk of Soult's French flanking attack until the rest of the Allied forces could redeploy. The British fed their troops in piecemeal to be chewed up one after another, including by the Vistula Lancers, who appeared out of a rainstorm to ride down several British infantry regiments before the last managed to form square!
A totally brutal battle where the British troops hung on despite bad leadership and intense French pressure. In fact Marshal Soult was quoted as saying "There is no beating these troops, in spite of their generals. I always thought they were bad soldiers, now I am sure of it. I had turned their right, pierced their centre and everywhere victory was mine – but they did not know how to run!"
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