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The Peninsular War — The French occupation and the Spanish guerrilla (1808–1814)
Marked by the Madrid uprising — the Dos de Mayo Goya painted, with the next day’s firing squads — the war raised a whole people in guerrilla against the occupier: six years of “Spanish ulcer” that bled the imperial armies without ever healing. (Editorial synthesis)
The Peninsular War began on 2 May 1808. (source: Fondation Napoléon)
The Peninsular War ended in 1814. (source: Fondation Napoléon)
The Peninsular War ended in the failure of the French occupation, which had suffered at Bailén the first major defeat of a Napoleonic army. (source: Fondation Napoléon)
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