Why did Napoleon lose in Spain?

Answer 1

Many reasons. Here are a few.

• Britain was determined to restore the Bourbon monarchy in France and so consistently bankrolled military coalitions against Napoleon.
• Napoleon's unpopular Continental System which banned trade between Britain and Napoleon's empire.
• Napoleon's invasion of Spain. Here his troops encountered resistance from guerrilla fighters. Napoleon greatly misjudged local attitudes to his reforms as well as the power and involvement of the Catholic Church in Spain.
• Napoleon's Russian campaign (1812). The Russians drew Napoleon as far as Borodino and burned down Moscow before Napoleon arrived. Napoleon should have quickly declared victory and left but he chose instead to wait for a treaty with the Tsar (temporarily residing in St Petersburg). It never came and the army marched back in bitter winter at the loss of 500,000 troops.

The allied forces reached Paris in 1814, before Napoleon's brief rise over the 100 days return from Elba, until his final fall at Waterloo in 1815.

Answer 2

The Spanish guerrillas, Regular Spanish troops not under French control, and the English and Portuguese under Aurthur Wellesley beat their pants off in the Peninsular War between 1808 and 1814.

Answer 3

he failed because most of his soldiers died of the cold of the winter, there was a general called general Winter that uses the winter to kill their enemies because they cannot resist the Russian Winter with their clothes

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This isn't necessarily true, but some reasons why he failed are:

1) Nelson blockaded the Spanish & French ports for years, preventing them from venturing out.

2) Nelson planned in advance.

3) Nelson's weapons were more powerful, reloaded quicker and the sailors were more experienced than those of Napoleon.

4)Napoleon needed to carry 2000 barges safely across the channel but he had to control the channel so his barges wouldn't be attacked.

5) Napoleon's sailors had become sick after travelling across the Atlantic, so they had to return to Spain to recover.

6) As Napoleon had already conquered most of Europe, he had taken over the country he was fighting alongside; the Spanish. This meant that maybe they didn't really want to fight for Napoleon.

I hope this helps :)

Answer 4

His over extended supply lines, Russia's scorched earth tactics and the winter weather.

Answer 5

waterloo