Building on events described in the Salamanca DVD, the BHTV team explain the siege warfare tactics of the British and the French during the period and explore the build up and epic battles fought in Spain before the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812. This film explains the theory and practice of siege warfare in the Peninsula both from the perspective of the defender and the attacker before covering the speedily conducted siege of Ciudad Rodrigo and the far more severe test at Badajoz, with its terrible storm of the breeches and the dreadful aftermath.