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Part of Kingdom of León civil war and War of Portuguese independence; Location: Iberian Peninsula. County of Portugal Supported by: Kingdom of Galicia: Portuguese rebels Victory. Afonso Henriques takes the leadership of the County of Portugal and paves the way for an independent Kingdom of Portugal. Luso-Leonese War (1130–37) Location ...
The following list of French general officers (Peninsular War) lists the générals (général de brigade and général de division) and maréchals d'Empire, that is, the French general officers who served in the First French Empire's Grande Armée in Spain and Portugal during the Peninsular War (1808–1814). The rank given refers to that held ...
Manuel de Godoy offering Queen María Luisa a branch with oranges.. The War of the Oranges (Portuguese: Guerra das Laranjas; French: Guerre des Oranges; Spanish: Guerra de las Naranjas) was a brief conflict in 1801 in which Spanish forces, instigated by the government of France, and ultimately supported by the French military, invaded Portugal.
The battle marks the end of the third French Portuguese campaign, with France driven out of Portugal for good. The conventional war in Iberia would rage until 1814, with the Spanish Portuguese border entering a period of stalemate as the Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish allies would contend with French control of key border fortresses resulting in ...
As a result of the Iberian Union, Phillip II's enemies became Portugal's enemies, such as the Dutch in the Dutch–Portuguese War, England or France. The English-Spanish wars of 1585–1604 were clashes not only in English and Spanish ports or on the sea between them but also in and around the present-day territories of Florida, Puerto Rico ...
Location: Portugal, Atlantic Ocean, and the Azores Islands. Pro-Crato Portugal Supported by: France England Dutch Republic: Spain Pro-Philip Portugal: Spanish victory, Philip II of Spain crowned king of Portugal, Iberian Union: Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598) (simultaneously supporting the Dutch Republic in the Eighty Years' War during 1596–98)
Meanwhile, on 12 August 1807 the French and Spanish ambassadors delivered their ultimata to the Prince Regent of Portugal. The notes required that John must declare war on Great Britain, put his fleet at France and Spain's disposal, seize all British trade in his ports, and put all British subjects under arrest. John agreed to suspend ...
First Fox War France: Fox people: 1713 1714 War of the Catalans Part of the War of the Spanish Succession Spain France: Principality of Catalonia: 1714 1718 Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18) Ottoman Empire Republic of Venice Austria Portugal Order of Malta Papal States Spain [18] Himariotes: 1715 1717 Yamasee War: Colonial militia of South ...