The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe.
Napoleon considered the war so insignificant that he rarely bothered to bring to it his military genius, relying instead on his marshals and simultaneously launching his disastrou.
From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon\'s troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula.
The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe