Peninsular War

The Peninsular War is the name given to that part of the Napoleonic Wars which took place in the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain) between the years 1808 and 1814. The main protagonists were the British and French armies, with the Spanish and Portuguese engaged in a guerilla war of attrition against the French. Because of their make-up, men from several different nationalities were engaged in the fighting, on both sides, as both the French and British armies included numbers of German and Swiss soldiers, and the British were also instrumental in restructuring the Portuguese army. The French army also had Dutch and Polish units in Spain.