It became a guerrilla war, a form of warfare that he was not prepared and trained for.
Napoleon had trouble fighting the enemy because of the guerrilla fighters, they work in small groups to ambush French troops and then fled into hiding.
Napoleon had trouble fighting the enemy because of the guerrilla fighters, they work in small groups to ambush French troops and then fled into hiding.
Napoleon had trouble fighting the enemy because of the guerrilla fighters, they work in small groups to ambush French troops and then fled into hiding.
spain
Napoleon begun the war in 1807 by the abduction of the spanish king.
In the Peninsular war, after Napoleon was defeated he quoted" the Spanish ulser ruined me"
They were there as part of the Peninsular War of 1807 in which Napoleon replaced Charles IV with his brother Joseph.
Into Spain and Portugal in the Peninsular War.
Because the guerrilla's were not an army Napoleon could defeat in open battle.
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.
The War of the Third Coalition.