Dr Mark Thompson
Military historian & Author
Dr Mark S. Thompson is an independent military historian specialising in the Peninsular War 1808-14. His first book, The Fatal Hill covered the campaign culminating in the battle of Albuera in May 1811. 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 about the Napoleonic service of Field Marshal John Burgoyne. In 2021, Wellington and the Lines of Torres Vedras was published which describes the construction of the defences that defeated the third French invasion of Portugal in 1810. He is currently working on a book on the allied Siege of San Sebastián in 1813.
Mark has had papers published in a number of journals and presented at conferences in the UK and abroad, including the Wellington Congress. He is a member of the British Commission for Military History, the Friends of the British Cemetery at Elvas, and the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras.
