The white colonial elite, while seizing the opportunity to free themselves from the metropolis after Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808, were nevertheless unnerved by the removal of what they viewed to be the legitimate royal authority. Although they sought liberty from Spain, and fraternity ...
1808 - nb sent invasion force through spain - removed spanish king and put his brother on throne > spanish feared that nb would attack church-guerrillas, spanish peasant fighters, struck french armies in spain - brits sent troops to spain to help spanish -nb lost 300,00 men - weakened fr...
The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerril... D Gates 被引量: 1发表: 2001年 Death from Above in Minard's Napoleon Map successives en hommes de l'armee frangaise dans la campa...
The white colonial elite, while seizing the opportunity to free themselves from the metropolis after Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808, were nevertheless unnerved by the removal of what they viewed to be the legitimate royal authority. Although they sought liberty from Spain, and fraternity ...
He defeated a large Russian army in the Second Battle of Zürich on September 25 and then prevented another Russian army from advancing into Italy. These victories saved France from the immediate threat of invasion. Shortly after Napoleon came to power in the coup d’etat of 18 Brumaire (...
; and (2) the second and thirdPartitions of Poland(1793 and 1795), which served to distract the Continental powers from their invasion of France. The unprecedented successes of the French in the Revolutionary wars were due to their advantages in numbers; to the fact that France, even before...
; and (2) the second and thirdPartitions of Poland(1793 and 1795), which served to distract the Continental powers from their invasion of France. The unprecedented successes of the French in the Revolutionary wars were due to their advantages in numbers; to the fact that France, even before...