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Peninsular War
The
Peninsular War
(1807–1814) was a
military conflict
between
Napoleon's empire
and the allied powers of
Spain
,
Britain
and
Portugal
for control of the
Iberian Peninsula
during the
Napoleonic Wars
. The war started when French and Spanish armies
invaded and occupied Portugal
in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, its ally until then. The war on the peninsula lasted until the
Sixth Coalition
defeated Napoleon in 1814, and is regarded as one of the first
wars of national liberation
, significant for the emergence of large-scale
guerrilla warfare
.
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