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SPANISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Coggle Diagram
SPANISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
The course of the war
Important dates
1808
Battle of Bailen
Stopped French reaching Andalucia
1808-1812
Guerrilla warfare
Napoleon came to oversee French occupation
Sieges in
Zaragoza
Gerona
French occupied all of Spain except Cadiz
1812-1813
Central council
Signed military alliance with Great Britain
Duke of Wellington
Led Anglo-Spanish and Portuguese troops
Victories
Arapiles
Vitoria
San Marcial
1813
Napoleon signed treaty of Valencay
Fernando VII returned to the throne
Cadiz cortes
1810
Replaced Regency council
Each deputy had individual vote
No longer based in estate system
223 deputies
Different groups emerged
The supporters of Enlightenment ideas
Wanted to end Ancien regime
Constitutional monarchy
Popular sovereignity
Separation of powers
Absolutists
Wanted to restore absolute monarchy
1812
Cadiz cortes approved Spain's first constitution
