Napoleon: Total War - Peninsular War

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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's 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's peculiar shape), Napoleon's failure to pacify the people of Spain allowed Spanish, British and Portuguese forces to secure Portugal and engage French forces on the frontiers while Spanish guerrilleros bled the occupiers.[6] Acting in concert, regular and irregular allied forces prevented Napoleon's marshals from subduing the rebellious Spanish provinces.
Years of fighting in Spain gradually wore down Napoleon's famous Grande Armée. While the French armies were often victorious in battle, their communications and supplies were severely tested and their units frequently cut off, harassed, or overwhelmed by partisans. The Spanish army, though beaten and driven to the peripheries, could not be stamped out and continued to hound the French remorselessly. In 1812, with France gravely weakened following Napoleon's invasion of Russia, a combined allied army under Arthur Wellesley pushed into Spain and liberated Madrid. Marshal Soult led the exhausted and demoralized French forces in a fighting withdrawal across the Pyrenees and into France over the winter of 1813.
War and revolution against Napoleon's occupation led to the Spanish Constitution of 1812, later a cornerstone of European liberalism. The burden of war destroyed the social and economic fabric of Portugal and Spain and ushered in an era of social turbulence, political instability, and economic stagnation. Devastating civil wars between liberal and absolutist factions, led by officers trained in the Peninsular War, persisted in Iberia until 1850. The cumulative crises and disruptions of invasion, revolution, and restoration led to the independence of many of Spain's American colonies and the independence of Brazil from Portugal.

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[Dain145]

@cmantf Correction. The earliest date in which the Norse reached the Americas was in 986, the 10th century.

[XXGDUBSXX]

@aszkanfederation28 Uniform, not costume.

[Digmen1]

Why are half the posts in this video about Vikings and Norsemen and the USA.

You guys really know how to spoil a thread.

I used to enjoy reading the comments.

Nice video and fantastic music

[tromuniapp]

@Dain145 GO VIKINGS...not

[WesleyCGoss747]

wrecthed



[franbatista123]

@wirman777 GLOBUS - CRUSADERS OF LIGHT

[wirman777]

whats the music ?

[MrDeano324]

@Dain145

But they didnt set up a colony that later became a fully fledged country and world superpower. Therefore the credit for modern day America falls to Britain, and Queen Elizabeth 1st's colonies who would later become modern day Americans. Regardless of who got there first...

[metyuewb]

@airshipmilitaryboy26 well GUESS what WAR ISN'T A FUCKING GAME IDIOT

[dguetre]

Please - tell me the name of the music in this video. It's awesome. Hauntingly beautiful.

[hoosieryank1967]

I only wish they'd use proper regimental style colors instead of merely the national flags, but I guess they did so for ID purposes. Maybe they could have used both, that would have been cool (French Regt. colors have blue and red in corners, with blue and red corners facing simkilar blue/red corners and the name of unit in the white center.

[LordWellington15]

@Wapow27 Its amazing if your willing to put the time in to play it.