WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: –Napoleon lost about 300, 000 troops during the Peninsular War, which weakened the French Empire .

Detailed explanation-2: -While military deaths are invariably put at between 2.5 million and 3.5 million, civilian death tolls vary from 750, 000 to 3 million. Thus estimates of total dead, both military and civilian, range from 3, 250, 000 to 6, 500, 000.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Allied Army, consisting of Great Britain, Portugal, and Spain, won the Peninsular War. This resulted in Napoleon abdicating his throne and the fall of the First French Empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -The British added to the French troubles in Spain by sending troops to aid the rebels. Napoleon lost about 300, 000 men during this Peninsular War (so called because Spain lies on the Iberian Peninsula). These losses weakened the French Empire.

Detailed explanation-5: -It began as a popular revolt in Spain against Napoleon I’s imposition of his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, as king of Spain. It flared into a bloody guerrilla war and British troops, led by the future Duke of Wellington, landed in Portugal to support the expulsion of the French (August 1808).

Detailed explanation-6: -Napoleon benefited from the large number of battles in which he led forces. Among his 43 listed battles, he won 38 and lost only 5. Napoleon overcame difficult odds in 17 of his victories, and commanded at a disadvantage in all 5 of his losses.