Dusty journal detailing Napoleonic wars found

A handwritten journal has been found in the depths of a small Australian bookshop detailing what experts believe are battle plans from the Napoleonic wars.

The diary of British Lieutenant-Colonel John Squire, who served with the Duke of Wellington, was discovered among a pile of books in a cupboard at Cracked and Spineless New and Used Books in the Tasmanian capital Hobart.

Dated 1811, the leather volume appears to detail the period from May to June in that year of the war, when the French were pitted against an array of European powers, focused on The Siege of Badajoz in Spain.