SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Invasion of the Peninsula
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Peninsula Compaign
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Reign of Invasion
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Slaughter of the Peninsula
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Detailed explanation-1: -Frustrated by Portugal’s defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French troops entered the Portuguese capital of Lisbon and closed the country’s ports to English ships.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Battle of Bailén was fought in 1808 between the Spanish Army of Andalusia, led by Generals Francisco Castaños and Theodor von Reding, and the Imperial French Army’s II corps d’observation de la Gironde under General Pierre Dupont de l’Étang. This battle was the first open-field defeat of a Napoleonic army.
Detailed explanation-3: -Great Britain entered the Peninsular War in August 1808 under the command of Lieutenant General Arthur Wellesley. The British defeated the French at the Battle of Rolica on August 17 and then defeated the French at the Battle of Vimeiro on August 21.