Napoleon begun the war in 1807 by the abduction of the spanish king.
spain
Into Spain and Portugal in the Peninsular War.
They were there as part of the Peninsular War of 1807 in which Napoleon replaced Charles IV with his brother Joseph.
In the Peninsular war, after Napoleon was defeated he quoted" the Spanish ulser ruined me"
Napoleon manipulated the Spanish king off the throne, the Peninsular War broke out in 1807. Portugal refused to join the Continental System and Napoleon invaded the small Iberian country, forcing it to comply.
The Spain and Portugal portion of the Napoleonic Wars.
Spain and Portugal. It fought Britain, Spain and Portugal.
It became a guerrilla war, a form of warfare that he was not prepared and trained for.
Because the guerrilla's were not an army Napoleon could defeat in open battle.
The war in Spain from 1807 to 1814 between Napoleon's occupation army and the armies of Portugal and Britain, plus Spanish contingents and guerilla forces, for the control over Spain . The French lost the war and the British commander the Duke of Wellington went on to invade France from the south.
The War of 1812 paralleled the Peninsular War in Europe. At the time, England was at war with France and the armies of Napoleon.
In his memoirs Napoleon lays the blame for his later defeats (including Russia, Leipzig and Waterloo) squarely on the guerrilla warfare that he faced in the Peninsular War. It tied his troops down in Spain and reduced their fighting spirit to the point that he no longer had a cohesive Army.