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The Battle of Somosierra took place on 30 November 1808, during the Peninsular War, when a combined Franco - Spanish - Polish force under the direct command of Napoleon Bonaparte forced a passage through a Spanish Division stationed at the Sierra de Guadarrama, which shielded Madrid from direct French attack.
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.
Napoleonic Spain was the part of Spain loyal to Joseph I during the Peninsular War (1808–1813), forming a Bonapartist client state officially known as the Kingdom of the Spains and the Indies after the country was partially occupied by forces of the First French Empire.
22 lis 2023 · En octubre de 1808, el emperador francés se puso al frente de un ejército para recuperar el dominio sobre España. Tras tomar Burgos y vencer en Somosierra, hizo una entrada triunfal en Madrid.
1 dzień temu · The Spanish regular army, led by incompetent generals, suffered defeat after defeat. The War of Independence—or, as the English call it, the Peninsular War—became for Napoleon the “Spanish ulcer,” and he attributed his defeat in Europe to its requirements for men and money.
5 lis 2024 · Peninsular War (1808–14), that part of the Napoleonic Wars fought in the Iberian Peninsula, where the French were opposed by British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces. Napoleon’s peninsula struggle contributed considerably to his eventual downfall.
21 lip 2010 · On February 16, 1808, under the pretext of sending reinforcements to the French army occupying Portugal, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. Thus began the Peninsular War, an...
