In 1808, the Spanish army in Andalusia defeated the French at the Battle of Bailén, considered the first open-field defeat of the Napoleonic army on a ...

Spanish regular troops defeated a French army of inferior, ill-supplied troops under General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang at Bailén in July 1808.

Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive "liberation war" ensued. Abdications of Charles IV and... · References

1The collapse of the Spanish Monarchy in 1808 led to a revolution that resulted in the dissolution of that world wide polity and the creation of new nation ...

5 нояб. 2024 г. · Spanish: Guerra de la Independencia (“War of Independence”) ; Date: May 5, 1808 - March 1814 ; Location: Iberian Peninsula · Portugal · Spain.

Spanish American peoples pressed for dramatic changes to their status and sovereignty, and waves of bloody and messy conflicts ensued.

The abdication of Carlos IV and Ferdinand VII caused a crisis in sovereignty in the Spanish Empire. In Spain, local Juntas were formed, eventually coalescing ...

In February 1808, French troops invaded the country and soon occupied Madrid. ... French troops were also required to garrison hostile territory and wage a bitter ...

7 авг. 2023 г. · The Spanish won an early victory at the Battle of Bailén (16-19 July 1808), which marked the first major defeat of a French Imperial army, ...

By 1808, Napoleon had installed his brother Joseph as the king of Spain and sent 118,000 soldiers across into Spain to insure his rule. Determined to bend the ...