This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

* 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia ( now San Sebastián ), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.

* 1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.

The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.

As a result of the political upheavals caused by the Iberian Peninsular War and the removal of Ferdinand VII from the Spanish throne, a separatist rebellion emerged among the Cuban Creole aristocracy in 1809 and 1810.

* 1808 – Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.

French forces invaded Spain in 1808, leading to the Peninsular War of 1808 – 1814.

Although he did not make known his intention when creating the plates, art historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent Peninsular War of 1808 – 14 and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814.

* 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.

In 1809, Francis attacked France again, hoping to take advantage of the Peninsular War embroiling Napoleon in Spain.

* During the Peninsular War, contingents from the Gibraltar Garrison were sent to aid Spanish resistance to the French at Cádiz and Tarifa.

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, showing Spanish resisters being executed by Napoleon's troops during the Peninsular War.

The Duke of Wellington fought Napoleon's forces in the Peninsular War, with Joseph Bonaparte ruling as Napoleon's surrogate king at Madrid.

After her death in July 1852 he married secondly Norah Creina Blanche, daughter of Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peninsular War, whose biography he edited.

* 1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.

By the time Madison was standing for reelection, the Peninsular War in Spain had spread, while at the same time Napoleon invaded Russia, and the entire continent again descended into war.

Although he was initially successful in starving out Britain, Portugal refused to capitulate, leading to the Peninsular War throughout Spain.

* 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley ( later the Duke of Wellington ) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.

* 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

* 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.

* 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.

During the Napoleonic Wars the regiment saw action in the Peninsular War.

Category: Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Peninsular War

Juan Martín Díez, nicknamed El Empecinado (), was a historic Spaniard famous for his contributions to the Peninsular War.

Among the racial classifications used then in Spanish America are: Peninsular, Criollo, Castizo, Mestizo, Cholo, Mulato, Indio, Zambo and Negro.

* 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.

Following the Spanish coup of July 1936 the Spanish Republican Navy tried to blockade the Strait of Gibraltar to hamper the transport of Army of Africa troops from Spanish Morocco to Peninsular Spain.

During the prolonged Peninsular War from 1808 – 1814 some 300, 000 French troops were kept permanently occupied by, in addition to several hundred thousand Spanish, Portuguese and British regulars an enormous and sustained guerrilla insurgency — ultimately French deaths would amount to 300, 000 in the Peninsular War alone.

The rescuers are led by Napoleon's General Lasalle ( who was not, however, in command of the French occupation of Toledo ) and this places the action during the Peninsular War, centuries after the height of the Spanish Inquisition and at a time when it had lost much of its power.

The British gave up their attacks over Spanish territories when the Peninsular War turned Britain and Spain into allies against Napoleon.

* June 21 – Peninsular War – Battle of Vitoria: A British, Spanish, and Portuguese force of 78, 000 with 96 guns under Wellington defeats a French force of 58, 000 with 153 guns under Joseph Bonaparte.

The British Army provided long-term support to the Spanish rebellion in the Peninsular War of 1808 – 1814, assisted by Spanish guerilla (' little war ') tactics.

During the Peninsular War, Badajoz was unsuccessfully attacked by the French in 1808 and 1809 ; but on March 10, 1811, the Spanish commander, José Imaz, was bribed into surrendering to a French force under Marshal Soult.

Joseph somewhat reluctantly left Naples and arrived in Spain just in time for the commencement of the Spanish revolt against French rule, and the beginning of the Peninsular War.

He was also a renowned Portuguese and Spanish scholar, translating a number of works of those two countries into English and writing both a History of Brazil ( part of his planned History of Portugal which was never completed ) and a History of the Peninsular War.

In Standard Peninsular Spanish, however, vosotros ( literally, " you others ") is still regularly employed in familiar conversation.

When the Spanish people revolted against this high-handed behavior, French armies invaded the country again in the Peninsular War.

F. L. Lucas's novel The English Agent – A Tale of the Peninsular War ( 1969 ), about the Battle of Bailén and its aftermath, is the account of a British Army officer who, gathering information before the first British landings, buys a Frenchwoman at auction to save her from the Spanish mob.

The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War Manchester University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-7190-2538-9.

Napoleon's Cursed War: Spanish Popular Resistance in the Peninsular War, 1808 – 1814 ( Brooklyn Verso, 2008 ) 624pp ISBN 978-1-84467-082-6