Major conflict1808 – 1814 · 6 years

Peninsular War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Spain · Portugal

Estimated casualties

700Ksingle estimate · no range published

Guerrilla warfare in Spain and Portugal against French occupation. Demonstrated the vulnerability of conventional armies to insurgent tactics.

Belligerents4

France
Spain
United Kingdom
Portugal

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)British Empire (1815)

Conflict graph

PART OFNapoleonic Wars

SUB-CONFLICTS · 110

Battle of Alcolea1808
Battle of Baylen1808
Battle of Benavente1808
Battle of Bilbao1808
Battle of Cabezon1808
Battle of Cabrillas1808
Battle of Cadiz1808
Battle of Cardedeu1808
Battle of Durango1808
Battle of Espinosa1808
Battle of Evora1808
Battle of Gamonal1808

+ 98 more in the atlas.

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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