Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and Bourbon Spain, for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, previously its ally.
Peninsular War People (First 44 people) - Page 0
Thomas Brisbane
Officer
Willoughby Cotton
Gregor MacGregor
Soldier
Thomas Maitland
Former Governor of Ceylon
Agustina de Aragón
Spanish officer
Frederick Adam
Former Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands
Juan Martín Díez
Spanish military leader
General Torrijos
Spanish soldier
Charles James Napier
Former Governor of Sindh
JeanAntoine Verdier
French general
Hugh Gough
Officer
Henry Fane
British Politician
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
British officer
José Travassos Valdez, 1st Count of Bonfim
Portuguese soldier
Lowry Cole
British general
Bernardim Freire de Andrade
Portuguese general
Miguel Pereira Forjaz, Count of Feira
Portuguese general
Ralph Darling
Former Governor of New South Wales
Pedro Velarde y Santillán
Étienne Tardif de Pommeroux de Bordesoulle
French soldier
Maximilien Sébastien Foy
French military leader
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
British commander
Carlos Frederico Lecor, Viscount of Laguna
Portuguese-Brazilian general
Mariano Álvarez de Castro
Spanish military officer
Francisco Milans del Bosch
Spanish general
Guglielmo Pepe
General
Charles, Count Alten
Commander
Colin Halkett
Former Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey
Edward Barnes
British soldier
Guillermo Miller
Soldier
Collet Barker
British military officer
Maurice Berkeley, 1st Baron . . .
Auguste François‑Marie de Colbert‑. . .
French general
Demetrio O'Daly
Military personnel
Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple
General
William Ponsonby
Politician
James Simpson
American-Australian-British professor
Edward Charles Close
Soldier
William Beresford, 1st Viscount . . .
Former British Governor
James Kempt
Former Governor-general of the Canadas
Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais
French general
Jean-Antoine Verdier
French general
Casta Álvarez
Spanish warrior
