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French invasion of Spain: France started its invasion of Spain, eventually succeeding and restoring the monarchy, ending the Liberal Triennium. 1830: July: July Revolution or French Revolution of 1830: the conservative House of Bourbon is overthrown and replaced by the more liberal Orleans Monarchy with Louis-Philippe becoming King of France. 3 ...
The troops to be assembled for the invasion consisted of 25,000 French infantry and 3,000 cavalry. Spain would provide 24,000 infantry, 30 guns and 3,000 cavalry. The Spanish cavalry, artillery and 8,000 infantry would join the French at Alcantara then march to Lisbon. Entre Minho e Douro and Oporto would be occupied by 10,000 Spanish infantry ...
The siege of Pamplona (French: siège de Pampelune, Spanish: asedio de Pamplona) took place in 1823 during the French invasion of Spain. The city of Pamplona in Navarre was besieged by the French Army and successfully taken. It was one of the more notable actions of the campaign along with the Battle of Trocadero.
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The 1562 English expedition to France, led by England during the French Wars of Religion; The 1746 War of the Austrian Succession, Austria-Italian forces supported by the British navy attempted to invade southern France; The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars invasion attempts to defeat the French Revolution
The French Marshal Macdonald, at the head of two French and two Italian brigades, set off to do battle against the Marquis de Campoverde's Spanish troops. Stopping at Solsona, until then the seat of Junta of Upper Catalonia and finding the place deserted by its inhabitants, the French troops proceeded to plunder the town and burnt its cathedral .
Second French intervention in Mexico; Second Hundred Years' War; Second Ivorian Civil War; Second Schmalkaldic War; Shaba I; Shaba II; Siege of Saint-Dizier; Sino-French War; Sixty Years' War; Somali Civil War (2009–present) Soninke-Marabout War (Kombo) Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre; Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762) Spanish ...
In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo devoted several paragraphs to the battle (Volume II, Book 2, chapter 3), in which he called the battle "a fine military action", but also said that "[t]he war of 1823 was an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, (..) at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution."