Mark Thompson is an independent Military Historian specialising in the Peninsular War 1808-14. In 2009, he completed a PhD focusing on the role of the Royal Engineers during this period. This was published as Wellington's Engineers in 2015. In 2020 he published Wellington's Favourite Engineer on the Napoleonic services of Field Marshal John Fox Burgoyne RE. He has presented at conferences in the UK and abroad. He is a member of the British Commission for Military History, the Friends of the British Cemetery at Elvas, the Royal Engineers Historical Society and the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras. Visit his website at www.marksthompson.co.uk to find a complete list of his publications.
"""Even those well read in the history of the Peninsular War may be only casually familiar with the details Mark Thompson provides in this study, in which Burgoyne emerges as an important architect of Britain's victory over Napoléonic France.""-- ""HistoryNet"""