In May 1813, as Napoleon launches a desperate bid to save his empire following the disastrous defeat in Russia, the situation in Spain is particularly precarious. French forces have been weakened to ...

We tell the story of this war through more than a dozen dramatic accounts from Spanish, French, British, German and Polish ...

Spain's ambassador to Belgium 'will be sacked ... Spanish outlet El Independiente reported. Dubbed 'Little Napoleon', Albares has been accused of creating a 'climate of terror', having recently ...

Spain, alarmed at France's aggression, began to question their alliance with Napoleon. By 1808, Napoleon had installed his brother Joseph as the king of Spain and sent 118,000 soldiers across into ...

After Napoleon Bonaparte’s occupation of the Spanish peninsula in 1808, most of Spain's South American colonies removed themselves from European control and functioned as sovereign states.