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THE SPANISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Coggle Diagram
THE SPANISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Spanish War of Independence
Spanish population fight against the French
1808 to 1813
2 May 1808 the people of Madrid rose up against the French occupation but they failed
other parts of Spain were encouraged by their actions
Spanish War of Independence began.
The course of the war
Local and provincial councils were formed to fight against the French.
For the first time in Spain, people were voting to choose their representatives.
These committees were led by the Central Council
The Central Council had both executive and legislative power
several phases
1808
Spanish forces won several victories, including the Battle of Bailén.
temporarily stopped the French
1808–1812
guerrilla warfare began.
Napoleon came to Spain to oversee the French occupation.
the French occupied all of Spain except for Cádiz.
1812–1813
the Central Council signed a military alliance with Great Britain
Napoleon withdrew some of his troops from Spain in order to send them to Russia.
Anglo-Spanish and Portuguese troops, won victories at Los Arapiles, Vitoria and San Marcial.
French to withdraw from Spain
Treaty of Valençay.
Consequences
Agriculture was abandoned
cities and industries were destroyed.
almost a million people died in the war.
The Cádiz Cortes
The Central Council took refuge in Cádiz from the advancing French troops.
In 1810 it was replaced by the Regency Council
The Cádiz Cortes was the first unified cortes in which each deputy had an individual vote
no longer based on the estates system
There were 223 deputies
Different groups
the supporters of Enlightenment ideas
wanted to end the Ancien Régime
establish a constitutional monarchy with popular sovereignty and the separation of powers.
the absolutists
wanted the king to be restored as an absolute monarch.
19 March 1812
Cádiz Cortes approved Spain's first constitution
was a victory for the Enlightenment ideas of liberty and equality.
