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Why did General Dupont surrender in the Battle of Bailén?
General Dupont's had, from my inexpert view, quite a superior army when he fought the Spanish forces at the Battle of Bailén. This battle was in fact the first defeat in open field of the Napoleonic ...
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Did "el Empecinado" fight in the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)?
I'm writing a little piece on Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the most famous Spanish guerrilla leader of the Peninsular War), and I need to know if he took part in the defence of Ciudad Rodrigo ...
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Why did England and Portugal cheap out on the Battle of Aljubarrota?
One of the most important and famous battles in the Iberian Peninsula took place in Aljubarrota. There were two main parties:
Castile (with Aragonese, French and Italian support)
Portugal (with ...
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Is it true the British heavily downplayed their defeat in Cartagena?
According to the wikipedia article the British lost the siege of Cartagena despite having a numerical advantage of 7-8 to 1.
After the defeat King George II forbade anyone to talk about it in the ...
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