The Peninsular War using Google Earth

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[@Sad_Lancelot]

Pls do Afghan-Pakistan

[@ChikenNutshell]

Do ww2 woth unit's please if you want to

[@ionaguirre]

British troops did not come to help but to fight frenchs. All textile, shipyards and associated industries were burnt and totally destroyed by british during this war. One of their orders was to "To do what needed to prevent Spain from recovering again". As we say ... "With such allies .. what do we want enemies for?"

[@Azog150]

I believe they call it two birds with one stone.

[@gdrobloxianemperor1737]

The Spanish armies were incompetent in most of the war as shown when the two pronged attack on Madrid was crushed by soults smaller army, the British saved the Spanish in many ways however I accept at the start of the war Spain was doing well

[@romanmurillo1109]

​​​@@gdrobloxianemperor1737incompetente or.not the war effott was held by locals as every time a battle was lost(often) , the guerrilla increased activity and french only possesed the ground under their feet, and dispersed regular forces joined back once and again after each defeat. Incompetent or not , the spanish army won in summer 1808 the first Battle in an open scenario to a Napoleons army( Bailen) British army stood comfortably trenched in Portugal and only moved when situation was more than favourable at no or minor risk. In example in 1808/9 winter the British army had to run and escaped reembarking in La Coruña( where we have since then and honour the burial of Sir John Moore former general in command prior to Wellington dead during reembarkation coverage fight). Incompetente or not , at máximun climax of war around 300.000 french soldiers had to stay in the Peninsula and not such númber was due to the presence of and English army in Portugal which was due to their own interest and never to help us. History has tought us that we can have a polite and correct relationship with England but Friendship...no ...

[@romanmurillo1109]

See the map of this, in other hand , interesting video in 1810, with most of the spanish metropolitan territory occupied, the "Heroes" of the South América independence, ( mention Simon Bolívar or José de San Martín)departed towards their glorious mission from.....England...in English ships.... What a coincidence!!!! With allies like English, what we need enemies for????

[@juancarlosrayaceballos1537]

​@@gdrobloxianemperor1737 man literally Spain couldn't send a solid army to one front bc the frenchies were everywhere. If coordination fails It is imposible to defend the territory

[@usuarioanonimo5899]

Fun fact: The term "Guerrilla" originated in Spain, in which remnants of an army and civilians fight against much larger invading armies and use the local terrain to their advantage, such as mountains, jungles or urban areas, hiding and making surprise and rapid attacks, which was widely used in the Peninsular War.

[@mtn4006]

No solo se origino el término, también se hizo una doctrina mejorada para este tipo de guerra.

[@romeufrancisco7041]

and scorched earth tactics. "terra queimada"

[@politonno2499]

Yeah, but it wasn't the first conflict where guerrilla fighting was used

[@Monkeybis]

What jungle are you finding in Spain ??

[@dvelp7040]

@@Monkeybisspain is full of mountains and Forests, 55% of spanish territory is forest

[@TetraTower14]

Crazy to realise that this happened while he invaded Russia, losing a staggering 450k soldiers in Spain and another 600k in Russia consecutively, while opening 2 new opposites fronts...

[@Azog150]

How many lives can be extinguished for one man's narcissism and lust for power?

[@Red0100]

Everybody gangsta until the windmills start speaking Spanish

[@albertojimenez7294]

This was the period in which Spain suffered the greatest cultural loss in its history as many documents and libraries were burned by the French.This is the reason why, if a Spaniard tries to study his ancestors, he will probably find it very difficult to go beyond the 19th century.

[@jesusmarin6102]

no estoy de acuerdo, realmente perdimos el ritmo de la modernidad y nos quedamos con los curas y los caciques

[@albertojimenez7294]

@@jesusmarin6102 Y eso que tiene que ver?

[@jbsv2979]

Fue peor el Comunismo del siglo XX , no conozco mis orígenes “Gracias “ a los Comunistas, Socialistas y demás bárbaros que quemaron las Iglesias donde estaban los registros civiles del pasado!!😡( mis abuelos estuvieron en la cárcel por Republicanos)

[@aacugna8]

@@jesusmarin6102 La quema de documentos y bibliotecas por parte de los franceses es REAL... que usted no quiera aceptarlo es otra cosa...

[@gonzalo8545]

​​@@jesusmarin6102 muchos de los grandes avances en ciencia hasta el siglo XVIIy aportaciones a la literatura fue gracias al clero y a la iglesia, también por su parte ha destruido otros, pero en un término general el saldo es bastante positivo

[@bucketofgarbage]

The French Army lost, according to current estudies, 500.000 professionals soldiers in Spain, and even a little more. (The Spanish, among Civilians, guerrillas and soldiers, had a similar numbers.) France lost more soldiers than Russian campaing. Where France lost the war and succumbed was Spain.

[@JJPowerSlide]

Pero eso no sale en las películas

[@Alpffine]

Both the Spanish military and the French military possessed equal airpower throughout the entire duration of the war.

[@rabbaniazzahra1784]

Faxs

[@lallawmzuali6083]

Equal number of Nuclear weapons

[@ChainMap]

Equal number of space shuttles

[@ShodaiGojira-xn3xk]

Equal number of tanks and tactical weaponry

[@ishnenigans]

and Equal Number of giant mecha suits

[@theacedio]

Remember that while UK helps Spain to fight agains frenchs troop, in other hand helped America to become independent fighting agains Spain. Also Wellington drestroyed factories in Spain to eliminate the competence. Spain helped United States in the Independence War and after that US finally tried to take Cuba. Spain had no friends and that cost him the entire empire.

[@Transcube157_Oficial]

Yep, the betrayal of the USA, was unexpected.

[@obrani]

Nadie tiene amigos cuando eres el mayor imperio del mundo.

[@sagui8761]

I don't understand why we had to make friends with treacherous pirates.

[@Konstantino-gj2js]

Tristemente nos pasa por 2 incompetentes.

[@pisuoxide]

He certainly removed competence lol

[@josemaia9051]

Between 1807 and 1810, Napoleon ordered three invasions of Portugal, a country that refused to apply the Continental Blockade, but all of them were defeated. The first was the only one that had any success as it occupied the entire country with French general Junot installing himself in Lisbon, the occupation did not last a year and the French troops were defeated and expelled from the country by a Portuguese and English army. The other two invasions were defeated before they managed to occupy any part of the territory. The Portuguese army helped in the fight against the French already in Spain, contributing together with the Spanish and English to the defeat of Napoleon's troops in the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal's important action in the Peninsular War is poorly described in this video.

[@tiagoalmeida3271]

A nossa bandeira aparece ao longo do vídeo, mas é pequenita pode lhe ter escapado. Vê se melhor a partir de "1812"

[@tsupi7056]

​@@tiagoalmeida3271 é normal no mundo anglofono terem estas práticas. Quem ver isto fica com a percepção errada da realidade

[@Gloriaimperial1]

Spain was the first country to defeat an army of Napoleon, at Bailén, June 1808. A Spanish offensive followed, forcing the French to retreat 300-800 km across the peninsula (behind the Ebro river). King Joseph Napoleon fled Madrid as quickly as he could. Spain sent an army at that time to Portugal to help Portugal. We also beat the French at the naval battle of Poza de Santa Isabel, June 1808. That same month we beat the French at Gerona (behind the Ebro) and Valencia. This was a milestone throughout Europe.

[@josemaia9051]

@@Gloriaimperial1 Almost simultaneously, the Battle of Vimeiro was fought on August 21, 1808, as part of the First French Invasion of Portugal. On one side, there was the Napoleonic French army commanded by Jean Andoche Junot, made up of around 13,000 men and, on the other hand, the Anglo-Portuguese army made up of approximately 19,000 men, commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington. The Battle of Vimeiro was an undeniable victory for the Anglo-Portuguese army over the forces of Imperial France, putting an end to the First French Invasion of Portugal.

[@Gloriaimperial1]

@@josemaia9051 Of course, the Portuguese, the Spanish, and the British allies who came later, collaborated. Even with all this effort, I think Napoleon complicated the French situation by attacking Russia. And it was still necessary for the Austrian and German allies to rebel against Napoleon in his rear. Together we defeated Napoleon, but perhaps the victory began with the Iberian rebellion.

[@Detetive00000]

Napoleon's biggest mistakes, Russia and Spain, he was forced to fight on two fronts

[@guard6069]

No, he wasn't forced. He decided to fight all of Europe by his own will.

[@Liszt_1811]

he still could win if didn't rush to moscow , but expanded on western russia

[@Asaklein6000]

Yeah

[@guard6069]

@@Liszt_1811 Scorched earth tactics would still inflict heavy losses on the French and occupation costs would be inmense and there's simply no manpower to garrison all that.

[@Liszt_1811]

@@guard6069 its napoleon, he would handle it , like in spain

[@maycolpaez9925]

I would like to remind you that the British took advantage of the war to burn and destroy the textile factories in Spain. 😃😃😃😃

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

They did a lot worse than just that… Duke of Wellington himself called the men the “scum of the earth”. The most violent and dangerous armies are always the most successful, look at the Mongol Horde in Asia for example Personally I’m convinced it was a result of Britain never resorting to conscription. They were constantly employing men who either had no choice (aka prisoners) or men who needed money to survive. Don’t get me wrong, this was a small minority, but it only takes a minority to cause mayhem, look at French colonial soldiers in Italy during WW2, or Spanish explorers in the Americas

[@UsuallyTrolling]

Just a bit of banter

[@billder2655]

reminder that Wellington had to send 25,000 spanish troops home in disgrace from the invasion of france because of their looting... every side involved in the war had soldiers that looted, at least the british commanders took measures to try and stop it - unlike the French, whose occupation actively relied on looting. There were very bad cases of British looting, but people were regularly hung for it - the French outright instructed their troops to murder, raid and pillage - that's a pretty crucial difference.

[@El_1Rodriguez]

@@billder2655only when the Brit’s pillage from the kings basket are they ever in trouble huh?😂

[@uxiorabade2968]

​​​​@billder Reminder that quite some brothers of arms of those alleged 25000 spanish troops of the 4 Ejercito, "send home in disgrace from the invasion of France because of their looting" were, a few weeks before, the The Saint Martial Heights Battle casualties (1658 between dead and wounded, more precisely), by not only holding the Irún line that separated Wellington's flank and Graham's besieging of Saint Sebastian from the 9 french divisions march against them that Soult had regrouped in the French Basque Country border, after his previous defeat at the bask city capital of Vitoria by this same spanish fourth army, but overcoming them with fixed bayonet charges that ended up dispersing and annulling the enemy force. "18000 enemies with a great amount of artillery disolved like smoke that never will cause offence again" (sic), according to the Allied headquarters official post-battle statement. Reminder that all of this blood was shed so that the anglo portuguese allied force that ended up entering Saint Sebastian with minimal casualties on the same Saint Martial battle’ 31st August 1813 day, ended burning and pillaging up the city for days. Agreed. Looters exist in all invasion or occupation forces. And it is one of the darker realities of war. This was Wellington's main argument in response for war reparations request of the city comission of main representatives (without any success), due to the huge damage and human and material losses caused by the theoretically allied forces. Whose almost complete reconstruction over decades, incidentally, led to its very beautiful urban present configuration (“no hay mal que por bien no venga”).

[@loloflores123]

The worse part of trying to invade a country is that its population will fight till the last man because they have nowhere to retreat while the invader can always go back home.

[@_luis_514]

If they have a cause, if not why would you die.

[@uxiorabade2968]

However, at the same time in almost all the rest of invaded Europe, people seemed to have quietly retreated to their own houses.

[@Stillsmiling00]

Ppl don't have the same mentality that in the 19th century now they all know they can go to another country

[@larabiatendra979]

Tell that to the Palestinians 🇵🇸

[@DCDVassili]

"You cannot enter Spain without the permission of the Spanish" - Adolf Hitler.

[@lahire4943]

Actually at the beginning the French entered Spain with the permission of the Spanish.

[@iccconix]

@@lahire4943 with the permission of some* literally got beat by farmers

[@Angoneymlous]

Spain are cowardice to join ww2

[@mapinimationsUSA]

@@iccconix yea, it's just laughable on how France lost to some farmers LMAOO

[@guillermorr5877]

Then the french burned the village to the ground

[@joseramongomez2656]

The cruelty of the French and the lootings are well documented as shown i Goya's paintings Set clear that the popular uprising and the guerilla warfare, helped by the montanious geography of the country, was living hell for the french.

[@Zacarias_Malhavacas]

Iberian brothers stand strong 🇵🇹🇪🇸💪 (even though at the beginning they were at war)

[@Reksimy]

I know 🇪🇸❤️🇵🇹

[@SirFeraTheOG]

I remember you....

[@Zacarias_Malhavacas]

@@SirFeraTheOG from where?

[@JapanAbad]

Claro, para nada España dejo pasar al ejercito francés para invadir Portugal

[@SirFeraTheOG]

@@Reksimy I meant YOU.....

[@guard6069]

When the plains speak French, the mountains must speak Spanish.

[@bronzafivesix]

and snow should speak Russian

[@nuhu784]

@@bronzafivesix Perfect combo

[@DaveMillerOldSport]

​@@bronzafivesixnah snow speaks finnish

[@DaveMillerOldSport]

And trees speak vietnamese

[@Felipe_AndresIL]

​@@bronzafivesixNo, also Spanish... 😊 From mountain republic of Chile. 🇨🇱🤝🏻🇪🇸

[@josesierraromero8316]

In words of Murat:"Spain is not the Hell,is far worse" Napoleon worst error,my Country is mostly mountains and easily defendible terrain, is the Western Afghanistan,half million spaniards dead mostly civilians,and half million dead frenches,mostly soldiers..incredible.

[@pedrocalcoen]

There were lots of portugueses men and portugueses units fighting on Spain...😢 Respect!

[@mar_csbu7503]

Así es y los españoles lo sabemos y agradecemos. Nos da vergüenza lo que hizo el Borbón Fernando VII, francés tenía que ser.

[@AmonkNeu]

Ya se representaron con las banderitas de los batallones .

[@alessiocataldi2434]

never realize a "local" front of war in the 1800s could cause 1 million casualties only on its own

[@C3R0_N1L]

same.

[@guard6069]

@@C3R0_N1L *30 years' war left the chat.*

[@acoknitteruntemha]

europeans and chinese are extremely good on creating casualties of large quantity imo

[@UsuallyTrolling]

A lot of those casualties are from disease

[@Floridaboi-pe3fk]

1 million isn't really big if you consider the wounded, captured. A soldier can be wounded multiple times and those are recorded as casualties too.

[@juliomanuel1885]

Napoleon's Vietnam.

[@iccconix]

Wrong, Vietnam is America's Spain

[@williamcito29]

True. Very true. ​@@iccconix

[@Oscar92839]

And again didnt America beat Spain in a war tho and oversimplified

[@braxtonjones6163]

No That’s Haiti

[@iccconix]

@@Oscar92839 bro beated a decadent empire ☠️ congrats ig?

[@Astures]

El destrozo de ciudades y patrimonio artístico por parte de Francia e Inglaterra en ese conflicto es para llenar libros de historia.

[@ChrisCrossClash]

Well for Britain its understandable, you were enemies not a year before....

[@felixsirera536]

Comme dans le monde actuel les assassins sont toujours les héros les morts on n en parle plus 🎉🎉

[@ManuR-l4m]

After that Spain was like "Having an empire and fighting wars sucks. Lets become gigachads in sports instead."

[@ChainMap]

Fr

[@hahahaahhaahahaha]

No😂

[@darioquinteroromero2073]

After that Spain took the african route

[@baldojose]

procede to have 4 civil wars in a century

[@Marclinter]

​@@baldojose 4?

[@user-rl6fs6rd7m]

Really is kinda tragic how the Spanish were left out of the important post war discussions by the great powers, especially given how pivotal their part was in the war.

[@billder2655]

yeah but its also pretty tragic how the Spanish regular army stopped loads of its regiments fighting with Britain and Portugal for large sections of the conflict - the Guerrillas gave the British lots of crucial help with scouting and pathfinding, but the Regular Army and the Spanish government were very distrustful of Britain and the coalition, hence there aren't nearly as many Spanish troops at critical battles like Salamanca and Vitoria. Relations got a bit better after those victories (the Spanish government proclaim Wellington their saviour), but they sour again after Wellington sends 25,000 spanish troops home during the invasion of France for poor conduct towards civilians. Important to remember that Britain and Spain were at war just a few years prior, with the Spanish fleet getting trounced at Trafalgar - Britain were hardly going to turn around and embrace the nation that still remained one of their primary geopolitical threats, especially given the tensions between the two nations' commanders.

[@user-rl6fs6rd7m]

@@billder2655 Nice detailed insights, this gives me some clarity on the background as to why this may have occurred. Thank you

[@eddiel7635]

The Spanish allied with the French originally, a bit like soviets and Germany in 1939.

[@maximipe]

@@billder2655 The british pretended the spanish regulars fought under their command, in a country they were the guests at and probably to use them as cannon fodder. So no I don't see any tragedy in that, just the usual british bs.

[@uxiorabade2968]

​​​​​​​​​​​​@@billder2655​The 1812 looting and burning of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz or Saint Sebastian in 1813 by the 'poor conduct against spanish civilians' by those British soldiers ["the scum of the earth" (sic). Arthur Wellesley, 1st. Duke of Wellington], at 'allied' cities that were supposedly to be liberated, maybe provide some context to the alleged mistrust between both governments and military commanders.

[@hughgar3061]

Why is the role of the Spanish in the defeat of Napoleon avoided almost everywhere? The most recent case is Ridley Scott's mediocre film. Is it the late part of the Spanish black legend?

[@user-cm9pt8bo3l]

Definitely.

[@joseeugeniogomezalmodovar2446]

Por eso yo no fui a verla. Se la coman los anglos

[@JJPowerSlide]

Porque los medios d difusión los controlan unos propagandistas

[@peterp4037]

The map is not fully accurate. The French never actually controlled the countryside but just a few cities. So representing french occupation like the entire map is not correct.

[@homero_con_lechuguilla]

It's basically missing whole 7th spanish army, which peaked 36k men. Yes the guerrilla one. Which tied down the french army of the north and was twice it's size ultimately defeating it in detail.

[@historialoquendo8388]

Spain is the Napoleon Vietnam

[@Transcube157_Oficial]

Yes

[@Derp12348]

You mean indochina right ?

[@Guus-qv2ef]

​@@Derp12348No, Annam.

[@L_L_______]

Napoleon has 1v3 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹 and he almost won Napoleon made a mistake when he invaded Russia in winter while he was fighting in Spain

[@ppppppppyyyytoppp]

It was a total war against the french, painter Goya showed horror of war in Spain in his impressive paintings. It was a total war like Russia vs nazis in WW2, a huge level of violence and no mercy

[@Me_llaman_Vela]

Está es una demostración de que los ibéricos unidos son capaces incluso de derrotar potencias. Por suerte esa fue la primera y ultima vez que confiamos en un francés y a día de hoy siguen ganándose el odio de todos. Viva la península ibérica! 🇪🇸❤🇵🇹❤🇦🇩❤🇬🇮

[@raulmartinsanchez3910]

Lo mismo aplica para el Reino Unido

[@aacugna8]

EE.UU., Inglaterra y Francia siguen siendo enemigos de España... JAMÁS se debe confiar en ninguno de estos 3 países...

[@Alvar2001]

"Incluso de derrotar potencias"...vaya, es que éramos una potencia en 1808.

[@nacht98]

aha Portugal will NEVER join Iberia or Spain.

[@raulmartinsanchez3910]

@@nacht98 bro, Portugal is IN Iberia

[@SpanishAvenger]

Holy Jesus! Around the 0:50 mark, I was like: “oh, that was easy and quick”. Then it goes haywire on an absolute tug of war rollercoaster. This video changed the perspective of the conflict entirely for me!

[@feliflak9894]

I think what happened was that the French were losing so Napoleon himself went to Spain to fight with a bigger army and conquered many territories back

[@PVZzombieguy]

Spain is the strongest country in the world, why? Because nobody can conquer it, not even the spanish themselves.

[@AwokenElite]

French empire would have easily taken their lands if they didn't fought Portugal, U.K, Russia, Prussia and much more country's at the same time and yet france still managed to hold them back

[@ChainMap]

@@AwokenElite France would have been defeted at the start of the napoleonic wars without Spanish aids at the beggining

[@Angoneymlous]

United states have nuclear wepons which makes them most powerful army in the world, not even United states can conquer themselves

[@PVZzombieguy]

@@Angoneymlous the US can conquer itself and can be conquered.

[@Angoneymlous]

@@PVZzombieguy How can US conquer itself? United States have nukes and they can destroy us all, bulgaria?

[@Galrauch01]

Spain at its limit, it's scary.

[@quiadayot174]

Spain: English or Spanish? Napoleon: Oh no not today! we must leave this country

[@ChainMap]

0:16 balearic islands randomly turning against france. (I'm proud of my country! 🇪🇸❤🇵🇹)

[@antoniomari4126]

In Balearic Islands we tend to be like that though history. But no one really pays attention, so don't snitch

[@angelolivares4852]

Cádiz was never taken by the French.

[@Just_a_turtle_chad]

Glory to Spain for defending their territory from invasion.

[@iccconix]

From barbarians

[@handsomelyditto4215]

do not like this comment, it's a literal bot

[@mlgdigimon]

@@handsomelyditto4215 exactly. an annoying one too

[@Angoneymlous]

When Spain invades america and support axies and allies in ww2

[@jrdardonl]

​@@iccconixFrench were (and still are) worst than a bunch of barbarians.

[@pedropereira2211]

so, the portuguese had no casualties...

[@RicardoJorgevuzz]

That is the eternal problem of the "history" mainstream...Portugal who had first empire of Europe is every time forgot, Portugal is invisible to this people, so we did not lose a soldier lucky US NO?

[@JustinCase-ld4ih]

​@@RicardoJorgevuzzExactly

[@Militarychannelll]

1 portuguese = 10 spanhis soldiers

[@noonecare4593]

​@@Militarychannelll1 spanish farmer = 10 portugueses soldiers

[@BADelisle]

@@noonecare4593 1 Portuguese Baker Girl = 30.000 Spanish Soldiers

[@almalo1370]

El imperio español siempre estuvo sola contra toda europa y a pesar de todo nunca perdio su imperio en mas de 300 años. / pocos imperios resistieron tanto / (Fernando VII arruino el imperio por permitir que tropas napoleonicas entraran en españa para conquistar portugal pero aun asi napoleon no pudo con el poder iberico)...VIVA MI AMADA ESPAÑA Y LA HISPANIDAD.

[@ChrisCrossClash]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Want to puff your chest out even more Spanish boy?

[@ppppppppyyyytoppp]

Spaniards were the first who defeated Napoleon. It was a terrible mistake to fight against Spain or Russia.

[@shinsenshogun900]

Imagine conjuring a nightmarish quagmire by ejecting an ally monarch and his heir for your brotherly kin.

[@greensoldier2142]

Giggity giggity

[@brunswickgaming1815]

Giggity giggity

[@A410-f1o]

Fighting Russia and Spain , two fronts East and West… the German did the exact same mistake in WW1 by invading France and Russia , they couldn’t keep up

[@pedrocacela1885]

It was France and Russia that first attacked and invaded Germany in 1914. In Alsace-Lorraine and east Prussia, respectively. The Germans were stuck in the middle, as usual, and had to counter attack to break their encirclement, but failed in the French front because of the British involvement and, mainly, the incompetence of their armies supreme commander, Von Moltke (nephew).

[@adamk2893]

WE ESCAPING SAN SEBASTIAN WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@brunswickgaming1815]

unfunny

[@Sebastian122-e9r]

@@brunswickgaming1815 Then don't comment if you have nothing nice to say

[@brunswickgaming1815]

@@Sebastian122-e9r generic ass comment is what this is, cant go a SINGLE napoleonic video without “oh oh g&b reference”

[@Brandon-c6f]

Guts and blackpowder moment

[@BaguetteBoi1792]

​@@brunswickgaming1815"unfunny🙄🖤"

[@Brandon-c6f]

If Napoleon didn’t invade Spain Europe would’ve been looking very French

[@Sleve_McDichael1]

Spain was merely a side show compared to troop numbers twice as large in Russia, it's more realistic to say that if he didn't invade Russia.

[@Brandon-c6f]

@@Sleve_McDichael1napoleons army would have been at least 40% larger in his invasion of Russia if he didn’t invade Spain

[@Sleve_McDichael1]

@@Brandon-c6f His army still would been bled dry due to the winter. As a matter of fact one of the biggest problems he had was managing a supply line for such a large army in Russia.

[@epicshoe4444es]

​​@@Sleve_McDichael1even It Will be worser because the troops used on Spain will die Mostly on the winter , Diseases, battles,...

[@UsuallyTrolling]

A fate worse than death

[@Levy0409]

The portuguese court simply left Portugal and fled to Brazil

[@jd3k]

Real portuguese stayed, fought and won

[@chrisvickers7928]

@@jd3k Yup, but the Braganzas weren't what they once were. Eventually the king returned to avoid being overthrown. His son remained and named himself Emperor of Brazil.

[@henriquefaustino8526]

That was the smartest thing to do, they were actually adviced from the British to do so. If the king stayed and got captured, Portugal would have surrendered, and probably the Spaniards wouldnt have revolted against the French later. The peninsular war would have been over in days. There are also some theories that the Portuguse Court had plans to Elevate Rio de Janeiro to the status of Capital decades before

[@paulorocha8234]

It's called strategic withdrawal, even Napoleon himself praised the Portuguese king as the only one who managed to fool him. Funny how historians simply say he "ran away" when in order to move the entirety of the court and church and bank and literally the entire government structure it took many many months. Ofc we, the ones who stayed didn't like it one bit. But it was the right choice. Napoleon could have the territory, but would never claim victory because Portugal still had it's armies and navies. Which with the help of our allies the Brits, we could simply invade and reconquer. Not easy but it worked. I can respect that.

[@paulorocha8234]

@@henriquefaustino8526 True, rumor is that the royal family thought the future was in the paradisaical place called Brazil. And it's independence was also a way of keeping Brasil out of Portugal's problems afterwards. Same royal lineage, 2 countries. But yeah the original idea was to maintain Brasil as part of the kingdom, rule the empire from Rio de Janeiro and eventually incorporate the other territories into it. Unfortunatelly the same people who did the french revolution started spreading their "new religion" and the rest is history.

[@Lucovil]

A Galician here. In my region we remember every year the fierce resistance our ancestors showed against the French in 1809. They were extremely humble, but by fighting hard they managed to expel the invaders and achieve independence of Spain... The rest is History!

[@Reksimy]

Yo también soy gallego, viva España, viva la resistencia que dimos

[@Lucovil]

@@Reksimy ¡Que viva! Defendimos con honor nuestro país, y al hacerlo, contribuimos decisivamente a que Europa se librase del yugo del primer imperialista contemporáneo 💪🏻

[@Reksimy]

​@@Lucovil cierto, si Napoleon no hubiese invadido España, hubiese ganado en Rusia, por lo que España fue tan decisivo como Rusia

[@Lucovil]

@@Reksimy Tal y como planteó Napoleón la invasión de Rusia, muy probablemente hubiera perdido la guerra de cualquier manera (a mi juicio). Ahora bien, resulta evidente que el aporte español al desgaste bélico de los franceses fue significativo; el hecho de que se trate prácticamente del único teatro activo en el intervalo de 1808-1814 lo dice absolutamente todo.

[@usuarioanonimo5899]

Spain and Ukraine have a similar history, both are Indo-european, nationalists, suffer invasions, are Christians, love eat salt bread and drink alcoholics drinks, and have beautiful girls

[@crispybacon9917]

Feels weird to see the bad guy blue. But it'd be weirder to see france red

[@rolanddheynmerculio6033]

its even more weirder if the british are blue and not red

[@Az-la-ph-ra]

Red to represent rebellion

[@mapinimationsUSA]

Why does France even exist?

[@Celebaguette]

The bad guys werent French that why

[@mapinimationsUSA]

@@Celebaguette France shouldn't even exist

[@Vegeta10000]

Where is the casualty’s for Portugal, it’s like we don’t exist lol

[@ppppppppyyyytoppp]

True, our neighbours helped us to expell the french out of Spain

[@emanuelfer456]

The map is actually true, there were 0 deaths by Portuguese in the battles. Portugal was prepared for the french invasions as they knew exactly from the Spanish invasion and they set up multiple traps where thousands of french troops died.

​@@emanuelfer456 That's just all false

[@Quidproquo1143]

Portugal lost more than 10% of is population at the time.

[@Sleve_McDichael1]

You basically don't exist, notice how 80‐90 percent of Anti-French troops were Spanish

[@joshuazarco6093]

La guerra que ocasionó las guerras de independencia en América Latina

[@fanegaquince6327]

Eso más bien fue cosa de los ingleses pagando y enviando tropas

[@ChrisCrossClash]

@@fanegaquince6327 Good

[@JacobOman-qb1lm]

A million people died for literally nothing

[@Le0_0-]

To prevent Spain becoming french, I'd say that's a big ass reason.

[@VinyZikss]

Thats just the history of humanity in a nutshell

[@alfonsomartinezsaguillo1529]

Calla, necio !!!! Los patriotas españoles dieron su vida por defender a su país de la invasión bárbara que sufría por la perturbada mente de un enano corso. 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸

[@Idki5170]

Jamás al invasor!

[@StylusPT]

As a Portuguese being from the area whose defence lines (look for "Linhas de Torres Vedras") defended by the Portuguese and the British (Wellington) stood up and defeated Junot, this is a far cry from accurate and deeply disrespectful towards every dead man and raped women (not even a counter for Portuguese casualties exist). To this day, the French cruelty is reminded from grandparents to grandsons in the most affected areas; every year, there are reenactments of the battles so no one forgets. Portugal, with Brits aid, had a big role in how the Napoleonic wars played out. Don't you forget that from 1807 to 1808, we were invaded by both Spanish and French in coalition. As Portugal and England have the longest alliance in the world still in place to this day we did not accept the embargo on British ships as demanded by Napoleon and decided to move the court, government and banking to Brazil, making Rio de Janeiro the Portuguese Empire capital, some say the king fled, but if you're smart enough you know you don't flee a whole government overnight, even Napoleon said King D. João VI was the only one who fooled him. On the other hand, the Brits would join Portugal and fight on Portuguese soil as was advantageous for them to take on the French. To me, Napoleon must be in hell, red hot impaled, right next to Hitler, Stalin and Mao...another spike waiting for Put-in.

[@starlight_ultix]

*Napoleon con media europa a su poder * España con la percepcion de la realidad totalmente distorsionada: Yo le gano🥶🤑🔥🔥

[@mapinimationsUSA]

Yeah, becuz france will stay WEAK

[@mfc4987]

Non , la quasi-totalité de l'armée française était à l'est contre l'Autriche et la Russie, d'ailleurs ont voit sûr la carte en 1812 les troupes française sont envoyées à l'est et réduit en Espagne

[@mapinimationsUSA]

​@@mfc4987France is a country that always surrenders

[@starlight_ultix]

@@mfc4987 dude, it's a joke 💀

[@dogcitycanary]

​@@starlight_ultix no he's not, it's an act of defiance against us, Spain, and I won't tollerate it. I will accept the duel, como antaño.

[@pascualbernet5047]

Leo a muchos anglosajones en los comentarios... quiero recordarles el contexto historico... Los ingleses y Franceses intentaron con todas sus fuerzas reducir el tamaño de las Españas, lo que financiaron las independizaciones de las Españas, por lo que España estuvo en constante guerra todo el siglo XVIII, con hasta 7 guerras, 4 de ellas bastante relevantes, la guerra de sucesion, la guerra de la cuadruple alianza (Ingleses, franceses, sacro imperio y paises bajos vs España y aliados), la guerra de los 7 años, donde españa apoyo a francia en busca de reforzar una alianza ya que se buscaba estabilidad para recuperar la españa devastada por las guerras, las guerras de sucesion polaca y austriaca e intentar mantener la presencia militar en las nuevas españas... donde los franceses traicionaron a España en la guerra del rosellon... primera traicion dolosa, apenas termina esta guerra inicia la guerra de las naranjas (españa vs portugal), apoyada por GB y fué durante la guerra de ese momento (guerra del rosellon), que francia acordó una especie de "alianza" o como lo llamaban en aquel entonces... «amistad y buena inteligencia entre el Rey de España y la República francesa»... la cual vino con el tratado de basilea y pocos años despues, segunda traicion de Francia, España ya estaba devastada por las guerras y mermada su economia tanto en la peninsula como en las nuevas españas, por lo que durante la guerra de la independencia española, se empezaro a independizar las nuevas españas, cumpliendo asi el objetivo tanto de GB como Francia de desestabilizar a España, ya que segun historiadores, españa era demasiado grande para permitir que no caiga... Por tanto, España desesperada por estabilizar su territorio en el viejo mundo, sacrificó los territorios del nuevo mundo y con la presion de entonces las mayores potencias de la epoca (GB y Francia), dejaron a una España sumida en el caos que aun repercute hoy en dia... por tanto... si los anglosajones dicen que ayudaron a España, mejor vayanse a ayudar a la India o a Hong Kong que aqui no aceptamos sus mentiras anglocentristas y si los Franceses dicen que eran mas poderosos que nosotros, deberán explicarme porque teniendo una economia y ejercito devastado por las anteriores guerras y presiones de las potencias GB y Francia, como aún asi, durante la guerra, el bando español sufrió menos bajas que el ejercito Francés al inicio y cuando los españoles sufrieron levemente mas bajas que los franceses por la presion en la vanguardia, los franceses retrocedian... porque es claro que cuando alguien es mejor que alguien, requiere de menos esfuerzo para el mismo resultado y que yo sepa, en aquella epoca tanto españoles como franceses tenian tecnologia muy similar y hombres igual de preparados (los franceses supuestamente tenian el ejercito mas poderoso del mundo pero no ganaron la guerra realizada en tierra), la diferencia y el motivo por el cual aun podria decir que los Españoles eran los mas poderosos de la epoca, aparte de porque necesitaron que 3 grandes superpotencias conspiraran contra España para destruirla, es porque en aquel entonces, España no tenia el ejercito mas poderoso del mundo porque llevaban 200 años de desgaste militar, pero aun asi podriamos verlo en el TOP6 de ejercitos mas poderosos del 1790, en ese mismo año españa tendria el TOP2 de la armada mas poderosa, que combinando economia, ejercito y armada, en este caso, España si estaba TOP1, lo que la hacia demasiado poderosa para existir... Si creen que en algun momento los ingleses o franceses ayudaron a España, eso es mentira, las unicas "ayudas" siempre fueron con intereses propios y nunca en apoyo a un aliado... España siempre fué traicionada por todas las grandes potencias a excepcion de Portugal la cual aunque a veces ha traicionado a España, pero esto nunca fue de forma rastrera como si lo han hecho ingleses, portugeses y austriacos... Es mas, considero que España traicionó la fraternidad con portugal al intentar forzar que portugal se uniese al bloqueo continental de inglaterra por parte de los Franceses... aqui un claro ejemplo de porque no hay que juntarse con franceses... te embaucan con sus mentiras para traicionar a tus hermanos... Todo historiador que ha leido profundamente la historia belica del viejo continente tiene en alta estima la historia belica del pueblo Español, el cual siempre ha demostrado una gran rudeza, firmeza, valor y fuerza... No me creas a mi revisa la historia: Felipe II de España - "No tengo otra riqueza que mi ejército." Napoleón Bonaparte - "La mayor victoria de España fue no ser derrotada por mí." / "La guerra de España fue mi herida sangrante." / "Es más fácil dominar el mundo que someter a los españoles." / "Los españoles son los soldados más difíciles de derrotar, porque nunca se rinden." / "Me he enfrentado a muchas naciones, pero las guerrillas españolas me han enseñado lo que significa realmente la lucha." Sir Winston Churchill - "La Armada de España es el único enemigo que jamás ha podido ser derrotado en el mar." / "Nunca subestiméis el alma de España, porque su orgullo y su resistencia son capaces de levantarse de las cenizas." Miguel de Cervantes - "El valor del soldado español es tan grande que ni el mismo miedo le puede amedrentar." / "El valor español está en la tierra, no solo en la espada." Tácito (historiador romano) - "En el combate, los soldados españoles siempre se distinguen por su bravura y resistencia." Francisco Franco - "El Ejército de España es la garantía de la unidad, la fuerza y la grandeza de la nación." / "El ejército español es invencible porque siempre ha sido el protector de España." / "El soldado español es invencible cuando defiende a su patria." Isabel I de Inglaterra - "Nunca he temido la Armada Invencible, porque el sol siempre se pone sobre el imperio español." General Blas de Lezo - "Un solo brazo español puede frenar el avance de un ejército entero." Federico II de Prusia (Federico el Grande) - "Si el ejército español se uniera al de Francia, el equilibrio de poder en Europa cambiaría para siempre." Adolf Hitler - "Cuando invadí Rusia me quedé con tres divisiones españolas. Si hubiera tenido 10, habría conquistado el mundo." Arthur Wellesley, duque de Wellington - "Dame soldados ingleses para ganar batallas, pero españoles para conquistar el infierno." Otto von Bismarck - "España es el país más fuerte del mundo, porque lleva siglos intentando autodestruirse y aún no lo ha conseguido." / "El ejército español es uno de los más formidables de Europa cuando se encuentra en lucha." General Wellington - "Los españoles han demostrado una valentía que ni siquiera ellos mismos sabían que poseían." Reinhard Heydrich (alto mando nazi) - "No importa cuánto frío haga en Rusia. Los españoles siempre siguen luchando." Maximiliano de Austria (emperador de México) - "Prefiero un solo batallón de españoles que un ejército completo de extranjeros." Lord Byron (poeta británico) - "España, tu sangre corre con la bravura de tus campos de batalla." / "Los españoles son los únicos hombres que pueden morir por su patria sin lamentarse." Francisco de Quevedo - "La fama de España es más grande que sus victorias." General Dwight D. Eisenhower - "Nunca se puede subestimar la capacidad de un ejército que ha sido probado en la guerra civil y la resistencia contra los invasores." General Juan Martín Díez, "El Empecinado" - "Si no hubiera habido españoles, Francia nunca habría podido conquistar España." Lord Horatio Nelson - "La Armada Española es formidable, y si se me da la oportunidad, temeré que, alguna vez, pueda derrotarnos." Alejandro VI - "España tiene el ejército más fuerte, porque sus guerreros están protegidos por Dios." César Borgia - "España es la espada de Europa, y su ejército es imbatible." Thomas Jefferson - "La Armada española tiene la capacidad de hacer temblar a cualquier nación en el mar." Alessandro Farnese - "Los soldados españoles son los mejores que jamás he conocido, con ellos nada es imposible." Joseph P. Kennedy - "Si España se mantiene unida y fuerte, será el bastión de Europa." Bernard Montgomery - "Si hubiera tenido más tropas españolas en Normandía, habría ganado la guerra mucho antes." José Bonaparte - "Los españoles no son fáciles de conquistar; nunca se rinden, ni siquiera cuando todo parece perdido." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "La valentía de los soldados españoles en los campos de batalla es incomparable." Henry Kamen - "España, a pesar de sus altibajos, sigue siendo una nación de guerreros, cuya historia está tejida con grandes gestas bélicas." Simón Bolívar - "Los soldados españoles, a pesar de su decadencia, han sido los mejores guerreros en las luchas coloniales." Charles V - "El imperio español tiene el ejército más leal y disciplinado del mundo." Carlomagno - "En toda Europa, no hay soldados más fértiles en victorias que los de España." Richard Ford - "Los españoles, por naturaleza, son guerreros. Su historia está llena de coraje y lucha." Tamerlán (Timur)) - "Nunca subestimen a los españoles en combate, ellos han resistido incluso a los invasores más feroces." Francisco de Goya - "La resistencia de los españoles es la chispa que puede encender cualquier lucha por la libertad." Los Españoles nunca han tenido aliados fieles, a pesar de ello, siempre hemos sido bienaventurados con todas las potencias catolicas en la historia, pues España no ha iniciado ninguna guerra expansionista en Europa, en cambio, ingleses y franceses no pueden decir lo mismo.

[@ChrisCrossClash]

I swear what is it with all you Spanish and the lies? the constant lies?

[@pascualbernet5047]

@@ChrisCrossClash Estas seguro que las mentiras las dicen los españoles? La informacion la he sacado de fuentes ajenas a España... Concretamente de Francia, Italia y EEUU... De todos modos, yo he dado argumentos... tu has aportado nada... Almenos argumenta tu punto de vista... Seguro que ni siquiera sabias que el "dolar americano" es una moneda española... el dolar español...

[@maragatomarchadaki6196]

I assume that those are only soilder casualties, because the french violence against civilians because of the guerrilla cost much more lives

[@zelitobock6983]

Why you dont put the casualities of Portugal? Or are inside of Spain's casualities?

[@thebestone00]

If im not wrong i think this was the beginning of the end of Spanish empire 🇪🇸 (before many things happened to Spain)

[@Truth4234]

Yes it would've collapsed eventually anyway

[@thebestone00]

@@Truth4234 true

[@uxiorabade2968]

"Many things happened to Spain" meaning four civil wars (quite brutals, fought under the unwritten rule of 'no prisoners', not even regarding minors) for the next seven decades.

[@j.f.v.7530]

@@thebestone00 The beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire is 1700 when the Bourbons came to power.

[@j.f.v.7530]

When the Bourbons (French) came to power, they began to dismantle the Spanish empire and spend all the wealth. It took a century until the Bourbon offered Spain directly to France.

[@jaimelopes6167]

It's a bit odd to join Portugal and Spain on the same map. During the first occupation of Portugal by Napoleon, the French and Spanish were allies. Spain opened its borders to Napoleon, allowing him to invade Portugal.

[@Deborah-s7n]

Is the british and portugal is allied with spain?

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

Yes, after France attacked Spain. Initially, Spain was in alliance with France against the UK and Portugal

[@DomMarmelo]

This video only shows how amazing Portugal is with 0 fucking casualties... Best army ever! 😑

[@UsuallyTrolling]

Richard Sharpe is soldiering somewhere on this map

[@Enric.]

I do not know how accurate this is. Barcelona was controlled by Harber (French) until May 28, 1814.

[@ErmWhatTheSigma69wastaken]

There is nothing we can do....

[@ddc2957]

That’s right. You can do nothing for the horse you Lead to water if it refuses to drink. Spain preferred to remain bankrupt & slaves to the church instead of prosperous & free thinking.

[@mapinimationsUSA]

Yes there is nothing they can do Unless raising the white flag. 🌎🤜🇫🇷

[@passao]

La guerra donde se forjaron grandes héroes españoles como el general Castaños, o el general Palafox, El Empecinado, Espoz y Mina, Daoíz y Velarde...

[@Az-la-ph-ra]

It started with france getting the double the casualties of spain but in the end , spain ends up with more casualties ey

[@santiagogomez-monederomanc2645]

Cosas de la guerra, cuando se está más o menos igualado el que ataca suele tener más bajas que el que defiende.

[@sandesh666]

The Peninsular War-where the real battle was between Napoleon's ambition and his crumbling ego. Spoiler alert: Ego lost

[@ddc2957]

Spain preferred to remain poor ignorant & backward, rather than prosperous ‘ free thinking like France. Their “reward” was half a million of their own dead & lookie here - they’re still broke, another 200 years later. & PROUD of their ancestors in the Napoléonic Wars? Morons.

[@Truth4234]

Yes I watched his earlier campaigns and I know that he only slept for like 4 hours every day for years so he clearly was going mentally insane at this point

[@letsdestroyfrance]

Wake up - France is just a nightmare in our heads, it's not real

[@mathismialhe1366]

​@@Truth4234some people just need 4 hours of sleep And he was among them

[@Truth4234]

@@mathismialhe1366 He was still insane and didn't understand his actions he killed millions of people and was a narcisscist clearly not valuing others

[@daniraelgarcia264]

Alicante never fell to the french ocupation.

[@jd3k]

Portuguese and english casualties?

[@arturjcrebelo3275]

A lot to from both countries. England have 35600 deads and Portugal deads nobody knows forsure but they estimate about 30000.

[@2006chame]

spaniards never surrender

[@user-cm9pt8bo3l]

Invading Spain is a VERY BAD idea, reading any History book they should already know that.

[@OSKARFF1]

[@Adam1-766]

One of the most uno reverse comback history before ww2

[@dra1212]

How this is calculated ? I see july 1808 and no sign of the more of 20.000 french losses of Bailen.

[@AcMusicStyled]

Hey there i'm Spanish!! Sick video btww- Can i know the editor name please?

[@Jose-bz3ks]

Napoleón se fue cagando Pirineos arriba

[@SerGio-xs9ss]

At first the plan was to carve up Portugal for the benefit of the French and Spanish. But things turned sour between the Spanish and the French. By the way: the Portuguese got heavily involved in this war, 3 French generals (Junot, Masséna, Soult) failed to conquer the country (the 3 invasion attempts, which caused a lot of damage in the country), an entire division disappeared in the mountains, trapped by the local population. Lisbon was never taken. The regular Portuguese troops then participated in the fighting in Spain and even in French territory.

[@mohansharma97]

You are in 10% of good youtubers club.

[@joserodrigues46]

Portugal lost 10% of the inhabitants, and in this video the role of the Portuguese is shamefully underrated.

[@antoliv2668]

Some of the first major French military defeats were inflicted on the French army in Portugal. Spain was at that time an ally of France and participated militarily in the invasions of Portugal.

[@alejandrocasesvillanueva3711]

España nunca se rindió

[@juancastinheiras5852]

Galicia: Bah gabachos a mi...

[@Americas_91]

This is a good map animation keep up the good work

[@loismor2584]

España le tendió la mano a Napoleón y él nos escupió, fue un arrogante y le dimos su merecido castigo. Aún no sé por qué todos nuestros vecinos, desde ingleses, franceses, portugueses, siempre nos han odiado, y aún lo siguen haciendo. Tal parece que estamos destinados a ser enemigos.

[@uncitoyen_8614]

Parece que hubo una intriga palaciega en 1808 en Madrid, si mi información es correcta, el "joven" Fernando quería derrocar a su padre Carlos, lo cual hizo durante un levantamiento. El problema era que Fernando estaba más a favor de una política pro británica que pro francesa, Napoleón y sus asesores se negaron a ver a España como una posible base de retaguardia para las tropas británicas. Tropas que luego podrían invadir Francia a través de su frontera sur. Verá, el problema español en la era napoleónica es que España está tan debilitada política y militarmente que no puede garantizar su neutralidad hacia Francia, y esto se convertiría en un problema si España se pusiera del lado de los británicos.

[@rodrigodias6083]

spain literally let france invade portugal and invaded with them, we helped retake madrid from the french, and you ask why we hate you? multiple attacks and it was almost always you invading us, portuguese want to stay in their corner of the world where we formed a country almost 1000 years ago, 400 before you did, and still you feel the greedy need to take advantage and attack us every chance you get. But portuguese people are not easily broken, and we wont ever submit to fools from a few broken kingdoms banded together. 1143 sempre caralho

[@PlanetBuster552]

My god… Napoleon may have been tough, but he clearly could not break the will of the Spaniards. They whooped his intellectually-gifted ass real good. Even entered France proper towards the end of it. I would vastly prefer to live under Napoleon if I was in Europe at the time, though. So I think it’s up for debate if rebelling, a pretty extreme move usually seen as a last resort, was actually in Spain’s best interest. Like, what would it take to get Napoleon to accept an offer to prevent such an uprising or stop it on the condition that a French-sympathizing ethnic Spanish ruler be put in charge of governance instead of a purely French ruler? Could he conceivably be reasoned with?

[@RicardoJorgevuzz]

PORTUGAL NO CASUALTIES...That is the eternal problem of the "history" mainstream...Portugal who had first empire of Europe is every time forgot, Portugal is invisible to this people, so we did not lose a soldier lucky US NO? Portugal is many times included in Spain, all talked about Spain, but a small country like us only lost is empire as a all in 1974, and thank God we did lost at last, i almost was obliged to fight there in Africa, 4 more years of dictatorship and i was there fighting , to bad not sooner we lost all. But what i want to say is Portugal is for ever the forgotten one in the World history, so why our casualties must be included?? we are Spain to them. But other than this ( its big mistake) i find this work interesting, just.

[@Thehomey5432]

Keep it up. I love how you’re making these videos.

[@nourkazmouz3017]

Napoleon's Afghanistan

[@rism_pro]

Securing Portugal was key to sucess

[@Imperial.Soldier]

Napoleon thought he could conquer Spain 😂😂😂

[@Paul-lw7xm]

yes he did 😂😂 spanish think that they have beat french army alone

[@guard6069]

@@Paul-lw7xm You do realize that France also had help in Iberia from the Dutch, Danish, and Polish, right?

[@Paul-lw7xm]

@@guard6069 yes after we beat them on the battlefield and their army had brandished the white flag

[@guard6069]

@@Paul-lw7xm Ah yes, when the French raised the white flag.

[@Paul-lw7xm]

@@guard6069 nop others europeans nations during napoleonic wars who raised the white flags during 5 coalitions 🤣🤣. Even at 1 against 26 they raised the white flag and sign treaty of peace with us

[@matacurrei5665]

Sometimes... Well most of time I realised Napoleon wasn't a competent general, maybe a so-so artillery commander wich some luck strikes 😅

[@DaviliyoFPS]

everybody is gangsta until they realise Napoleon is nothing compared to the Spanish Empire

[@Roctech44]

Lad tried to invade a country that lost everything, and still lost.

So All the thousands of Portuguese forces that fought and died in this war are just a foot note? No matter turning the tide of the war in Portugal or helping to liberate Madrid. Oh I get it, Portugal is only almost 1000 years old, almost 400 years older than Spain, but they don't really exist, it's just fiction.

[@winstondavis4831]

We need an icon for where Richard Sharpe was during the war

[@Croatianland6634]

Great video 🎉🎉🎉🎉👌

[@bluesharkgames]

Where are Portugal's troops?

[@Orangeninja0730]

"Never fight a war on 2 fronts" -hitler, Napoleon, kaiser Wilhelm II

[@DaxtonPlayzFortnite]

How do you make videos like this? Great job by the way!

[@hi-easty]

لا أظن اي احد قد لاحظ القوات البريطانية المتسللة من ناحية البرتغال سرا 😅

[@Dude29]

How is this so well documented when it was centuries ago? There sre variations on a day by day basis sometimes. Where do you get this data from?

[@joselopes2144]

With this video, with a loooot of accuracy (irony), we learn that only spanish and french died in this war. Somehow, or the Portuguese and English are spanish too, or they didn't die at all.

[@Silvius5000]

Yep, history that this things, they don't say Anglo-portuguese alliance that help free Spain.

[@UnflippedGD]

you can see in the end the other armies helping spain...?

[@evannpalma2404]

When france was pushing and almost looked like it was winning. That was when napoleon was there. When he left it's when it stalemated. That was a big flaw of france it was too dependent on napoleon to make decisions and thuse no one could do thing by themselves without constant approval or supervision

[@Az-la-ph-ra]

Because Napoleon was the dictator ?

[@evannpalma2404]

@Az-la-ph-ra yeah.