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The Peninsular War was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars, waged between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal. It started when French and Spanish armies, then allied, occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, its former ally.
Timeline - Peninsular War: 18 October 1807 – 30 April 1814. Begins with Junot and his French troops crossing the border to Spain (With the intention of crossing Spain and to invade Portugal in November 1807) and ends with the Treaty of Paris. The Guerilla War of Spain starts on 2 May 1808, when rioting sweeps through Madrid, called Dos de Mayo.
The Peninsular War (1807-1814), also known as the War of Spanish Independence, was a major conflict of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) that was waged in the Iberian Peninsula by Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom against the invading First French Empire of Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815).
28 October 1808 – Napoléon set Gaspard Monge a plan to invade England by hot air balloon. 29 October 1808 – New leaving of the Emperor, this time for Spain. November 1808. 5 November 1808 – The King Joseph and his court, refugees in Vittoria, saw the Emperor Napoleon's arrival.
1 dzień temu · Spain - French Invasion, War of Independence, 1808-14: Joseph could count on the support of cautious, legalistic administrators and soldiers, those who believed resistance to French power impossible, and those who considered that Napoleon might “regenerate” Spain by modern reforms.
The war started when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807 by transiting through Spain, and it escalated in 1808 after Napoleonic France occupied Spain, which had been its ally.
Napoleon invaded Portugal in 1808 with the royal family fleeing to Brazil, increasing the likelihood of an escalated war. The Peninsula War officially started after France invaded Madrid and the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy.
