Wellbeloved marries his rescued Condesa and returns to Spain to support and encourage the guerrilla bands. He learns that Sir Arthur Wellesley has thrown Marshal Soult out of Portugal...Now, having two platoons, he moves down to Talavera in time to play an unofficial part in Wellesley's battle. The British have to retreat after the battle and avoid being trapped. The Hornets smuggle over a hundred recovering casualties to the Condesa's estates and train enough of them to provide a welcome increase to their own strength, but is it enough?Customer rollicking tale of Welbeloved and his band of rogues now well trained guerrilla fighters, I love this series, the characters are well developed and the action is non-stop, just as it must have been in the early 1800s.''...Wow! If only all books were as good. I was expecting a run of the mill Naval story, - not a bit of it! I ended up buying all 4 of these volumes purely and simply because I couldn't wait to read the next chapter...I guarantee that once you start to read, you will be completely hooked.'