Napoleon dominated Europe, but Spain and Portugal became his greatest military disaster. The Peninsular War turned into an endless, costly conflict, forcing the French to fight against both a ...

Step into the chaos of the Napoleonic Wars through the eyes of those who lived it. From 1808 to 1814, Spain and Portugal became the battleground for brutal conflict during the Peninsular War.

The Peninsular War was one of the longest and most drawn-out campaigns of the Napoleonic War; a piece of Imperial regime change designed to close off the last European ports open to British trade ...

Napoleon considered the Iberian Peninsula another world — with people ... It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated ...

SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago the end was in sight for World War 2. Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945.

English author Bernard Cornwell presents the history of the Peninsular War, the setting for his Sharpe novel series. It was fought for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.

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