Napoleon: Total War - Peninsular War

White Knight: Total War Videos Napoleon: Total War The Peninsular War Campaign UK - Portugal VS France Historical Background: The Peninsular War (Spanish: Guerra de la independencia española) was a contest between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French armies invaded Portugal in 1807 and Spain in 1808 and lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814. Spain&liberation struggle marked one of the first national wars and the emergence of large-scale guerrillas, from which the English language borrowed the word. While the French occupation destroyed the Spanish administration, which fragmented into quarrelling provincial juntas (in 1810, a reconstituted national government fortified itself in Cádiz and proved unable to recruit, train, or equip effective armies due to a tough siege derived from the city&peculiar shape), Napoleon&failure to pacify the...