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Spain and France defeat against Britain in the Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval battle in the framework of the Third Coalition. It took place near Cape Trafalgar, where France and Spain fought against the British army. The aim of this battle by Napoleon was to invade the British Isles, where the Franco-Spanish fleet helped. This plan failed distraction, and worsened with the consequent loss of Finisterre. This was one of the conesecuencias for which Napoeón wanted to cross Spain to Portugal, an ally of Britain. -
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Napoleon´s occupation of Spain 7reign of Carlos IV before the Spanish Idependence War 1805-1808)
Period of time between the defeat of Spain and France against Britain in the Battle of Trafalgar until Napoleon Bonaparte put in power to his brother, Joseph Bonaparte -
Spain signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau with France
The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed by Spain to France. In it the French-Spanish joint military invasion of Portugal-which had joined England and was allowed to make the passage of French troops through Spanish territory, becoming the precursor of the French invasion of the Iberian peninsula after provisions and War of Spanish Independence. It was signed on 27 October 1807 in the French town of Fontainebleau between their plenipotentiary representatives of Manuel Godoy, favorite of King Carlos I -
Napoleon crosses Spain
Napoleon crosses Spain in 1808 and, as people do not like the alliance with France that Spain had the riot broke out of Aranjuez, to the possible flight of King Carlos IV and his minister Godoy to America. Godoy has to resign and Carlos IV abdicates in favor of his son, Fernando VII -
Aranjuez Mutiny 17 and 19 of May
It was an insurrection in the streets of this suburb. It was triggered due to the defeat of Trafalgar, the presence of French troops in Spain, which controlled all communications. In March 1808 the royal family retired to Aranjuez. The people stormed the palace of Godoy. The mutiny was pursuing the dismissal of Godoy and the abdication of Charles IV in Fernando. His father abdicates that day, and the son is called Fernando VII. The Godoy fall meant the starting point of the "Spanish Revolution". -
Abdiations of Bayonne
IIn the words of Napoleon Bonaparte, what would happen in Bayonne in July 1808, not only would allow the Spanish dynastic change very favorable for them, but also would get it without a previous revolution. Never in history, an abdication was so surreal as replacing the Bourbons by the Bonaparte family. Napoleon managed to weave a complex web of deceit, using power struggles between Carlos IV, Fernando VII and his son Manuel Godoy. Napoleon retained in Bayonne Fernando VII and Carlos IV. -
Uprising May 2
First-scale revolt against Napoleon's troops settled in Madrid. The harsh repression of the French soldiers against the rebels, made him spread throughout Madrid. The May 2 death occurred more than 400 thousand Spanish and French soldiers. The events in Madrid led to the lifting of some villages in the area and the Spanish troops in Extremadura and Andalusia but the rest of Spain stood waiting. These surveys were revoked by the Council of Castile forced to collaborate with the French authorities -
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Spanish War of Independence (reign of Jose Bonaparte 1808-1813)
The Spanish War of Independence began on 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rose up against the French occupation and finish with the Battle of Toulouse, ending the War of Spanish Independence and charge back to King Fernando VII -
Napoleon Bonaparte made Joeph Bonaparte the new King of Spain
Napoleon offered him the crown of Spain, Carlos IV and Fernando VII had made available to the abdication of Napoleon in Bayonne in 1808, and Joseph accepted immediately. So was King of Spain from June 7, 1808, although he did not abandon his title in Naples until July 5 -
Bayonne Constitution
Standard dictated to the government of Spain by Napoleon Bonaparte in the French city of Bayonne, adopted on July 6, 1808. He was a charter granted enacted in the French city of Bayonne on July 7, 1808 by Joseph Bonaparte as King of Spain and inspired by the Bonapartist model constitutional state. -
Battle of Bailén
Battle of BailénHe was the first defeat in the history of the imperial eagle army of Napoleon. Following the lifting of the May 2 Napoleon ordered General Dupont controlling Andalusia. When General Dupont was heading to Cadiz to assist the naval squadron of Rossilly blocked by the Spaniards; he confronted the incipient Spanish army in Bailen on July 19. The Reding and Coupigny the Spanish army of Andalusia organized by the General Divisions Brown filed tough battle. After attacking the French Dupont surrendered -
Opening of the courts of Cadiz on September 24, 181
Due to the development of the War of Independence, the Supreme Central Governing Board and of the Kingdom, which holds the executive and legislative powers due to the French invasion of Aranjuez he moved to Seville and finally to San Fernando. Unable to run the country and deal with the Board decides the war through the decree of May 22, 1809 the call for cuts. -
Constitution of 1812
Known as La Pepa is the first Constitution promulgated in Spain, it is one of the most liberal of his time, being in force for only two years. Pepa established the following principles: a constitutional monarchy as the form of government, popular sovereignty with limited male suffrage, Catholicism as the state religion, the separation of powers: executive, legislative, and judicial guaranteed rights and freedoms, such as equality before the law, freedom of the press and prohibition of torture -
Battle of Arapiles
The War of Independence was a terrible conflict that ravaged the Iberian peninsula from 1808 to 1814. The Battle of Salamanca or Salamanca, fought on July 22, 1812, was one of the most outstanding episodes, as it resulted in the absolute defeat of the French army under Marshal Marmont. -
The Battle of Vitoria
The Battle of Vitoria was fought on June 21, 1813 between the French troops escorting Joseph Bonaparte in their flight and a conglomerate of British, Spanish and Portuguese troops under the command of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. The Allied victory sanctioned the definitive withdrawal of French troops from Spain (except Catalonia) and forced Napoleon to return the crown to Fernando VII country, ending the War of Spanish Independence. -
Treaty of Valençay
It is an agreement signed in the French town of the same name by the Emperor Napoleon offered peace and recognized Ferdinand VII as King of Spain, as a result of the defeats suffered in the War of Independence, and the progressive deterioration of the army French and morale of the soldiers by the continued harassment of the Spanish and English troops and the Spanish guerrillas. The treaty entered into force in Spain since the Cortes and the Regency in Madrid did not accept.
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Battle of Toulouse
It was one of the last battles of the Napoleonic Wars, four days after Napoleon's surrender to the nations of the Sixth Coalition.He is having pushed the French and the imperial armies out of Spain in a campaign last fall, the Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish allied army under the Marquis of Wellington pursued the war in the south of France in the spring of 1814. That afternoon the official word from the abdication of Napoleon and the end of the war. An armistice was agreed on 17 April.
