-
-
in his pictures and paintings he showed and criticized the war -
These already in Bayonne, where they left after leaving their post, Napoleon found out and forced Fernando to recognize his father as legitimate king, so that he would cede the position of Spain to him. This gave rise to Napoleon's brother reigning in Spain -
After several important cities in the north of Spain were controlled, Ferdinand VII and a large popular mass supported his father to abdicate from his post. -
Starting with the most important, the occupation of Spain by the French was well advanced in the north, which caused popular discontent. This led to the abdication by obligation of the kings. And finally, since the Spanish army could not defend itself against the French troops, the unprepared people fought against the occupiers. -
Thanks to the Spanish defeat, Godoy and Napoleon were able to sign a pact, which gave rise to a kind of invasion of Spain by France, although the invasion was supposed to be of Portugal, which was agreed upon in the deal. -
Nationals:
- About 500,000 dead (War, famine, disease)
- Destruction of buildings of many cities
looted many of the works of art
large economic losses
Modernization cut short
International:
First defeats of Napoleon's army
The Spanish colonies in America take the opportunity to achieve independence -
Everything happened since Napoleon decided to act in Spain due to the weakness of the Spanish royal family, also in 1805 Spain lost in Trafalgar against the English army. This was a deep crisis. -
1- French occupation
- They occupy cities and strategic areas of the peninsula
2- Popular discontent over the "arrest" of the royal family
Abdication of the kings
Appointment of Joseph Bonaparte
3- popular uprising against the occupation forces -
-
The common people together with the bourgeoisie ended the regime in France
The stratified society and absolutism disappear
End of social privileges
- Revolutionary slogans come true (liberty/equality/fraternity)
Revolutionary ideas spread
Fight of monarchs against revolutionaries Fr begins (Success for revolutionary France)
Napoleon, after proclaiming himself emperor, commercially blocked GB, but Portugal ignored it, so Napoleon tried to invade (1807) -
The nobility controlled large public offices and lived on the rents
There was a lack of a strong and enterprising bourgeoisie
- The Catholic Church controlled education...
- Most of the population lived in poverty and illiteracy -
Floridablanca (1788-1792)
Count of Aranda (1792-1793)
Manuel Godoy (1793-1808)
was the most important
Controversial, he was not noble and had many enemies
Meteoric political rise -
there is an ineffective monarchy on the reforms of enlightened despotism, there was also fear of the French Revolution, political office was in the hands of the nobles. -
The state was in huge deficit (bankruptcy)
For which the taxes rose
Most of the population lived in misery (continuous famines 1804)
Land ownership in the hands of the nobility and church
- Agriculture that is not very productive and based on self-sufficiency -
Spain immersed in a deep political, economic and social crisis