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The Treaty of Madrid (also known as the Treaty of Limits of the Conquests) [1] was an agreement concluded between Spain and Portugal on 13 January 1750. In an effort to end decades of conflict in the region of present-day Uruguay, the treaty established detailed territorial boundaries between Portuguese Brazil and the Spanish colonial territories to the south and west.
The Franco-Spanish invasion force was led by General Jean-Andoche Junot, while the Portuguese were under the nominal command of Prince Regent John. French and Spanish troops entered Portugal and swiftly occupied it in the face of little resistance due to the poor state of the Portuguese military.
Under the treaty, the House of Braganza was to be driven from the Kingdom of Portugal with the country subsequently divided into three regions, the north and south to be ruled by Duke of Parma and Spanish minister Manuel Godoy respectively, while the provinces of Beira, Tras-os-Montes and Portuguese Estremadura would remain in abeyance until a ...
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 1762 Bourbon invasion of Portugal was actually a succession of three military campaigns in different places and times with similar results: "The first object of the allied governments of Spain and France was to invade Portugal, the ancient ally of Great Britain, which was supposed to be wholly incapable of defending itself against so formidable a confederacy...that feeble and defenceless ...
Spanish–Portuguese Wars may refer to one of the following conflicts between Portugal and Spain (or between Portugal and Castile before 1492): Luso–Leonese War (1130–1137), when Portugal tried to invade Galicia. Luso–Leonese War (1162–1165), when Portugal invaded Galicia and annexed the territories of Turonio and Limia
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic.It pitted Revolutionary France against the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal from March 1793 to July 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Secession of the County of Portugal which becomes a kingdom with Afonso Henriques. Luso–Leonese War (1130–37) Location: Iberian Peninsula Kingdom of León: County of Portugal: Leonese victory Treaty of Tuy; Aragonese intervention in Aquitaine (1130–1133) Siege of Bayonne (1130–1131) Location: Southern France Union of Aragon-Navarre