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Napoleon's Loss In Spain Analysis
Napoleon’s Loss In Spain

Dear Journal,

In 1808,

I have lost to Spain in the Peninsular War in Spain. The Spanish didn’t like it when I put my brother, Joseph, in control of Spain in 1808. The Spanish then rebelled. The Spanish fought using Guerrilla Warfare, and they even had British troops accompanied by the Duke of Wellington, I knew that I could not win, and that I had lost many soldiers. The road to war began in the autumn of 1807 when I moved French troops through Spain to invade Portugal. After feeding more than 100,000 troops into Spain under the pretext of supporting the invasion, I deposed the existing Spanish monarch in April 1808 in order to place my own brother Joseph on the throne. Britain now had a

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