British Victories against the French Part 3: Peninsula War

There were as near as 60 British victories over the French in Portugal, Spain & France.
British repelled 3 invasions of Portugal 1808-1811
Liberated Spain 1811-13
& invaded France 1813-14

The Duke of Wellington rose to the prominence

The tune is: Wellington's Victory, Op. 91 (Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria) by Ludwig van Beethoven.

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[Freez57fr]

Another engaylish propaganda...

How Britain hid behind Spain, Portugal and the coalition, being figurants and after they think they are the great winners.

Spain liberated by Britain ROFL what a joke...

[LordGeorgeRodney]

@Freez57fr Salamanca Vitoria the Brits were the majority force.

Portuguese army was British financed, armed and officered and the the Spanish was almost the same!

[expertstrategy]

btw, have you bought or tried the new Shogun 2: Total War game? You can also play the Peninsular Campaign on Napoleon: Total War if you download it.

[LordGeorgeRodney]

@expertstrategy perhaps I should : )

[Liftorangejuice]

i would rather have a german division in front of me than a french one behind me

[mhmatt1]

@Freez57fr oi retard spain was liberated by Britain your so dumb



[expertstrategy]

@TomHartill, that was like many months ago, and that comment was really meant to piss off the person I wrote it to. Sometimes I say stupid things every now and then.

Responding to a four month old comment is like reading from a twenty year old newspaper and complaining about it to the journalist who wrote it. It's old news and nobody gives a crap about it.

"Do you think that having an ally simply means that you are going to hide behind them?"

of course not.

[TomHartill]

@expertstrategy - so what? the British did not "hide behind" their allies. Do you think that having an ally simply means that you are going to hide behind them?

Have you actually read about those battles you mentioned, if so then why would even consider the british to "hide behind Spain and Portugal"? - or are you just talking out ur ass?

[TalonMercenary]

@Freez57fr In fact it was the other way round, the Portugese army hid behind the British, who trained them, built a fortress to protect Lisbon (Torres Vedras) and ultimately led the coalition in the Peninsula war. Spain would have been crushed if it weren't for Britain's intervention - quite gracious when you think that just a few years before they had been enemies

[prncssbrea]

@Freez57fr you click on this video to make that comment?

does the taste of English cum still run bitter in your lady's mouth?

[engliscwarrior]

British army during the Peninsular war won nearly 40 battles, took 5 fortresses; expelled the French from Portugal twice and once from Spain; and then invaded Southern France and moved onto Paris

[artman479]

long live the empire sir..............

[expertstrategy]

@plasticbudgie " infact there are more military battles with the french hiding behind allies, than the brits, and the french still lost lol..." I think you have that backwards. In most of the major battles of the Peninsular War, the British won few major battles by themselves. Such as Talavera, Barossa, Fuentos De Onoro, Salamanca, Albuera, etc, etc..

[plasticbudgie]

@Freez57fr to be honest hiding behind spain portugal and coalition, im studying history, and i find the british empire to be the greatest military ever and most interesting, also you say the brits hid behind them, so did the french lol... infact there are more military battles with the french hiding behind allies, than the brits, and the french still lost lol...