In 1809 he routed an Anglo-Portuguese force under Sir Robert Wilson at Baños.

It was captured by an Anglo-Portuguese force at the invasion of Cayenne in 1809 and administered from Brazil until 1814, when it was returned to French control.

Its existence as a permanently embodied formation dated from 1809, when it was established by Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wellesley ( later to become the Duke of Wellington ), as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the Peninsular War.

It was created in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the Peninsular War, and was known as the Fighting 3rd under Sir Thomas Picton during the Napoleonic Wars.

The 4th Division was originally formed in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the Peninsula War.

The Battle of Grijó () ( May 10, 1809 – May 11, 1809 ) was a battle that ended up in victory for the Anglo-Portuguese Army commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley ( the future 1st Duke of Wellington ) over the French army commanded by Marshal Nicolas Soult during the second French invasion of Portugal in the Peninsular War.

He entered British naval service at the age of 11 on 22 June 1809.

* 1809 – In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.

* August 30 – Raphael Semmes, American and Confederate naval officer ( b. 1809 )

In 1809, the Battle of the Basque Roads ( French: Bataille de l ' Île d ' Aix ) was a naval battle off the island of Aix between the British Navy and the Atlantic Fleet of the French Navy.

On 11 October 1809, a naval commission recommended purchase of the Milford Haven facility and formal established of a Royal Navy dockyard.

* George Little ( naval officer ) ( 1754 – 1809 ), American naval officer during the Revolutionary War

* Sylvanus William Godon ( 1809 – 1879 ), American naval officer who served in the Mexican – American and American Civil Wars

Dahlgren guns were muzzle loading naval artillery designed by Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren USN ( November 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870 ), mostly used in the period of the American Civil War.

David Stockton McDougal ( September 27, 1809 – August 7, 1882 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War most noted for his leadership during a naval battle off of Japan.

* Edward Howard, 1st Baron Lanerton ( 1809 – 1880 ), British naval commander and politician

It is most famous as the site of the British naval victory over a French fleet at the 1809 Battle of Basque Roads.

On the night of 11 April 1809 Captain Thomas Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads.

In April 1809 he chased a squadron of French ships that had escaped from Brest into the Basque Roads.

The British commander at the Cape of Good Hope, Albemarle Bertie, had also been planning an operation in the Indian Ocean during 1809 and assembled a squadron under Commodore Josias Rowley with orders to blockade the French islands, probe their defences and capture them if practical.

On 18 May 1809, the 74-gun Third Rate HMS Standard, under Captain Askew Hollis, led in a squadron that also included the frigate Owen Glendower,,, and.

On the Superb ’ s return to Portsmouth in 1809 she was paid off and Keats was promoted to rear-admiral of the blue squadron.

On the night of 11 April 1809 Captain Lord Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads.

In February 1809 one Thomas Windeatt, from Bridgetown, Totnes, took over the lease of a plot of land ( a " newtake ") of about 582 acres in the valley of the River Swincombe.

In 1809, the last major river pirate activity took place, on the Upper Mississippi River, and river piracy in this area came to an abrupt end, when a group of flatboatmen, meeting at the head of the Nine Mile Reach, decided to make a raid on Stack Island and wipe out the river pirates.

John Keate, Head Master from 1809 to 1834, took over at a time when discipline was poor.

When the French Emperor Napoleon took Rome and expelled Pope Pius VII in 1809, Cappellari fled to Murano.

The French finally took the city December 10, 1809, after many deaths on both sides from hunger, epidemics, and cold ; Álvarez de Castro died in prison one month later.

Despite this, France occupied and annexed the Papal States in 1809 and took Pius as their prisoner, exiling him to Savona.

In 1809, the Battle of the Basque Roads took place near La Rochelle, in which a British fleet defeated the French Atlantic Fleet.

A map showing the battlefield where the engagements of Aspern-Essling and Wagram took place in 1809.

The most significant change to the County system took place when Sweden was forced to cede the Finnish Counties to Russia in 1809.

In 1809, he invaded Portugal and took Oporto, but was isolated by General Silveira's strategy of contention.

When the British took over Cephallenia in 1809, they proclaimed, " We present ourselves to you, Inhabitants of Cephalonia, not as invaders, with views of conquest, but as allies who hold forth to you the advantages of British protection.

Once Russia took control of most of principal Georgian lands in the 1800s, it again attempted to evict the Turkish garrison from Poti and succeeded in doing so with the help of Georgian irregulars in 1809, but was coerced to return the fortress to the Ottomans in the Treaty of Bucharest ( 1812 ).

* 1809: The first elections for the Berlin parliament took place, in which only the well-to-do could vote.

During the First Serbian Uprising, the liberation of Niš was attempted in 1809 when the famous Battle of Čegar took place.

It remained closed until 1809, and when the king was deposed, it took until May 1812, before it was organised enough to be fully opened again.

This War Council took place in Lisbon in 1809 and found the reckless lieutenant colonel innocent of the charges.

In 1809, the British defeated the French fleet in Zakynthos ( October 2, 1809 ) captured Kefallonia, Kythera and Zakynthos, and took Lefkada in 1810.

In 1799, the Ionian islands became the Septinsular Republic, nominally under Turkish suzerainty, but in practice dominated by Russia ; in 1807, France took them back ; in 1809, the British seized the islands set up one of their first protectorates, the United States of the Ionian Islands, and held them for nearly half a century ; under the British, they were governed by a High Commissioner who could act with both legislative and executive powers.

His elder brother, the chief of the Barakzai, Fatteh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud Shah Durrani to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and in restoring him to the throne in 1809.

One of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent.

Lannes ordered an attack on 22 January 1809 to capture the city in street by street fighting ; when the French took a block, sappers tunneled under the houses and blew them up, which prevented Spanish street fighters from slipping into houses behind them.

He occupied Venice and the Republic of Ragusa in 1806, was made governor-general of Venice in 1807, took part in the Erfurt negotiations of 1808, was ennobled as a count, and served with the emperor during the Peninsular War in Spain ( 1808 – 1809 ), where he commanded the division that besieged and won Pamplona.

Britain took possession of Rodrigues in 1809.