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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 ...
The Franco-Spanish War was fought from 1635 to 1659 between France and Spain, each supported by various allies at different points.The first phase, beginning in May 1635 and ending with the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, is considered a related conflict of the Thirty Years' War.
Castilian Civil War [1] 1351–1369 War of the Two Peters [1] 1356–1375 War of the Castilian Succession: 1475–1479 French–Breton War: 1487–1491 Italian War of 1494–98 [2] 1494–1498 Italian War of 1499–1504 [2] 1499–1504 War of the Holy League [2] 1508–1516 Italian War of 1521–26 [2] 1521–1526 War of the League of Cognac [2 ...
Start of Castillian-Leonese War, Castillian-Navarrese War and Castillian-Aragonese war. Henry II of England campaign on Toulouse [9] (1159) Part of Capetian–Plantagenet rivalry; Location: Southern France Kingdom of England House of Aragon [10] County of Barcelona; Lordship of Montpellier. Royal Domain of France County of Toulouse. Truce
The Dos de Mayo was among the few spontaneous popular uprisings of the war, launched without significant fore-planning, funding, or leadership by government elites. While elements within the Spanish military and state bureaucracy did envision military action to expel the French from the country, Murat's hold on Madrid was held to be unassailable in the short term.
The Nine Years' War [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa.
The war was damaging for Spain and for the Spanish Crown's revenues, with the British blockade greatly reducing the amount of wealth arriving from the colonies. A main Spanish fleet, under José de Córdoba y Ramos , had 27 ships of the line , however, and planned to link with the French and protect convoys of valuable goods.
This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France .