] So you are saying that for historians, it's a critical and complex time, about which there is a lot of evidence. Do you think that the analysis side of it generates its own fervor- that previous interpreatations of, for example, the Peninsular campaigns, encourage alternative or more developed discussion?

That's always the case with historians--they replay Marx's dialectic all the time. So the more things happen, the more the analysis, and the more the analysis, the more the counter analysis, and so on.

YHOS,
Snarkhunter