peninsular war

I know, invading Britain after Trafalgar is just slightly more likely than Operation Sealion and less likely than Operation Unthinkable in terms of alternate history, but this is not about invading Britain, but rather a possibility in regards to the Great Ulcer. According to Andrew Roberts...

what if USA "liberates" all 1763 Spainish colonies? Napoleon was never born and Spanish empire survives with 1763 borders in 1850s and are without civil wars but for that reason they don't enact post occupation reforms and have even less industry. American settlers are countered by brutal...

How could Spain have maintained Latin America under its empire until the decolonization era? In OTL the Peninsular War sparked the independence movements, so avoiding it would be obvious, but then what? Would the Spanish Empire need some reforms? How would Spain deal with the US and its...

Less than two months after becoming king of Spain for the first time, Ferdinand VII and his deposed father, Charles IV, were called upon by Napoleon to go to Bayonne to, officially, sort out the situation that was developing as a result of the Tumult of Aranjuez and the Dos de Mayo Uprising...

After the great Spanish victory at Bailén, which resulted in the surrender of almost 20.000 French troops and the collapse of their position in the Iberian Peninsula, Napoleon launched a massive offensive involving more than 250.000 soldiers. The Spanish army, vastly outnumbered on the...

If Napoleon was never born would US never succeed in manifest destiny? with no Louisiana purchase and peninsular war and resulting instability could spain populate Louisiana, Oregon and OTL American southwest With Catholics in order to counter US settlers before inevitably being removed from...

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The peninsular war was a bloodbath that drained the french empire's resources and ultimately led to the death of the Spanish Empire, as well as the Portuguese. Its causes are complicated, with Portugal not joining the don't-trade-with-Britain-club, internal unrest in Spain and napoleon having...

The collapse of the spanish empire brought about the end of what had once been the greatest power in the world. It wasn't a spectacular last stand like the British in ww2, nor was it particularly humiliating like France in Indochina. it was simply due to the fact that spain had been invaded and...

General consensus is that Napoleon invading Spain wasn't a big help, however, neither was the current king. Charles IV was a buffoon uninterested in governing, Godoy was unreliable as an ally, and Ferdinand attempted a coup to abandon Spain's obligations to France. All in all, if left alone...

What if, after Wagram, Napoleon decides to handle the Spain problem himself? Of course, there is one caveat I will throw: if Napoleon doesn't beat Wellington and cure the Spanish ulcer by June 1812, he will still have to go to Russia. So with that in mind, assuming the campaign starts from...

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let's say French to send 60,000 men to help the Spanish maintain their occupation of Portugal and don't backstab the Spanish. fast forward a bit and Napoleon does his thing in Russia and it comes up the same way but in this scenario let's say there are hundreds of thousands of French soldiers...

Skirmishes involving Americans in Florida began to eat up in the 1810-1812 time frame historically. Suppose these had resulted in war instead of the OTL War of 1812? Would this impact U.S. relations with Latin American countries then struggling themselves for independence? Might the U.S. be able...

I've read a couple of discussions about the peninsular war and most seem to agree that Napoleon couldn't hold both Portugal and Spain. I've seen several people suggesting that holding Portugal was a possibility however, what about the opposite? Let's say Napoleon never enacts the Continental...

Otl, to say spain was hit hard by everyone's favorite corsican minor noble (unless you yourself are a corsican minor noble, which is a tad unlikely) is an understatement. They lost their empire, whatever industry they had, their people, and indeed, Franco's rise and their whole history of...

There are many points when Napoleon had, or was close to winning out over British, Prussian, and Russian resolve. But I want it to stick. What is the latest point to keep the First French Empire on top of the world? The biggest issue I'm having is I want to write a TL and have Brazil become the...

I have read a couple of posts about the feasibility of America colonising Australia. All of the posts I read came to no feasible conclusion of its possibility, I, therefore, decided to solve the challenge. The aim of the is post is to give a hypothesis of a reasonable colonial possibility...

What if the French forces in Spain, under Marshal Jourdan, had managed to defeat the Anglo-Spanish forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813? I'd wager that the French would still want to make king Joseph's possessions in Spain more compact, as holding to...

What if the Spanish guerrillas and anti-Napoleonic regular armies had managed to properly defeat the French incursion into their homeland before the Peninsular War could escalate into a protracted, attrition-based conflict? I'm looking for a PoD that sees the Spanish defeat Napoleon's late 1808...