Vervloekt land. In de voetsporen van de Vlaamse en Hollandse soldaten van Napoleon in Spanje en Portugal

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Charles IV, King of Spain; Ferdinand VII, King of Spain; Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Ríos, 1st Prince of the Peace, 1st Duke of Alcudia, 1st Duke of Sueca, 1st Baron of Mascalbó; Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French; Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain; Carlo Maria Buonaparte (show all 143); Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte; Maria-Letizia Ramolino; Pasquale Paoli; Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain; Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia; Frederick William III, King of Prussia; Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland; Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples; Joachim Murat; Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantès; Luis Daoíz y Torres; Pedro Velarde y Santiyán; Manuela Malasaña; Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, prince de Talleyrand; Alexander I, Emperor of Russia; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Francisco Goya; John VI, King of Portugal; Eugenio Izquierdo de Rivera y Lazaún; José Rebolledo de Palafox y Melzi, 1st Duke of Zaragoza; Agustina Raimunda María Saragossa i Domènech (aka Agustina of Aragon); Francisco Javier Castaños Aragorri, 1st Duke of Bailén; Pierre-Antoine, comte Dupont de l'Étang; Joaquín Blake y Joyes; Louis Henri Loison; General Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, 1st Baronet; Bernardino Freire de Andrade e Castro; General Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet; Henri-François Delaborde; Jean-de-Dieu Soult; François Étienne de Kellermann, 2nd Duke of Valmy; Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello; Francisco Javier Venegas; Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis; Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore; Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc; Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno; Jean-Baptiste Jourdan; Pedro Caro Sureda, 3rd Marquis of La Romana; Richard Goodwin Keats; David Hendrik Chassé; François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig; Benito de San Juan; Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado; Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais; Corporal Thomas Plunket; General Sir Edward Paget; Gregorio García de la Cuesta y Fernández de Celis; José Moñino y Redondo, 1st Count of Floridablanca; Guillaume Philibert, 1st Count Duhesme; Honoré Charles Michel Joseph Reille; Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu; Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr; Theodor von Reding; Mariano Álvarez de Castro; Charles Pierre François Augereau, duc de Castiglione; Augustin Daniel Belliard; José de Urbina y Urbina, 3rd Conde de Cartaojal; Mariano Luis de Urquijo; Francisco Cabarrús, 1st Count of Cabarrús; Francisco da Silveira, 1st Count of Amarante; Christian Adolph Frederick Eben; Caetano José Vaz Parreiras; Philippe-Charles Argenton; Paul Charles François Adrien Henri Dieudonné Thiébault; Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta; William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford; Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley; George Canning; Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, Lord Castlereagh; José Miguel de la Cueva y de la Cerda, 14th Duke of Alburquerque; Francisco Espoz y Mina Ilundáin; André François Miot de Mélito; Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo; Louis-Gabriel Suchet, duc d'Albuféra; Diego Vicente Cañas Portocarrero, 7th Duke Del Parque; Juan Carlos Aréizaga y Alduncín; Jean Gabriel Marchand, 1st Count Marchand; Eugenio Eulalio Palafox y Portocarrero, 7th Count of Montijo, 17th Count of Teba; Auguste Julien Bigarré; Tomàs Puig i Puig; Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel et Valangin, prince de Wagram; Marie Julie Clary, Queen of Naples; Aimé-Marie-Gaspard, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre; Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden; Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (Charles XIV John, King of Sweden); María del Pilar Acedo y Sarriá, marchioness de Montehermoso; Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley; Lieutenant-General Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney; Manuel de Lapeña y Ruiz del Sotillo; John VI, King of Portugal; André Masséna, 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling; Michel Ney; Jean Louis Ébénézer Reynier; Major-General Robert Craufurd (aka Black Bob); Eugénie Renique (aka Henriette Leberton); Jean-Jacques Germain Pelet-Clozeau; Jean-Baptiste Bessières, 1st Duc d' Istria; Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, duc de Raguse; Honorine Anthoine de Saint Joseph; Joaquín Ibáñez Cuevas y de Valonga, 3rd Baron de Eroles; Antoine Morlot; Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st duc de Tarente; Jean-Marie-Pierre-François Dorsenne, count Lepaige; Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen; Armand Philippon; General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun; Luis Rebolledo de Palafox y Melzi, 4th Marquis of Lazán; Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes; Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Earl of Uxbridge; Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza; Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières; Bertrand Clauzel; Edward Charles Cocks; Henri-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke, 1st comte d'Hunebourg, 1st duc de Feltre; Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst; Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga; Francisco López Ballesteros; Jean Pierre François Bonet, Count of Bonet; Major-General Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet; William II, King of the Netherlands; Don Luis María Cardinal de Borbón y Vallabriga, Farnesio y Rozas; Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière; Pedro Iand IV, Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal; Miguel I, King of Portugal; Louis XVIII, King of France; Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Empress of the French; Annette Savage (aka Anne Delafolie); Émilie Lacoste (aka Emilie Hemart); Juan José Rafael Teodomiro de O'Donojú y O'Ryan; Louis Collignon, 'baron' de Kolli; Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, Princess of Canino and Musignano; José Miguel de Carvajal-Vargas y Manrique de Lara Polanco, 2nd Duke of San Carlos; Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Ford Whittingham; Francisco Javier de Elío y Olóndriz; Jean Isidore Harispe, 1st Comte Harispe; Maximilien Sébastien Foy
Important places
Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain; Almeida, Portugal; Abrantes, Portugal; Zaragoza, Spain; Cadiz, Spain (show all 33); Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Aranjuez, Spain; Evora, Portugal; Leira, Portugal; Burgos, Spain; La Coruña, Spain; Badajoz, Spain; Alcantara, Spain; Barcelona, Spain; San Sebastian, Spain; Valencia, Spain; Seville, Spain; Santander, Spain; Granada, Spain; Cordoba, Spain; Tarragona, Spain; Girona, Spain; Tudela, Spain; Rosas, Spain; Uclés, Spain; Chinchon, Spain; Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain; Bordentown, New Jersey, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Tarbes, Occitanie, France; Toulouse, Occitanie, France; Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Important events
Tumult of Aranjuez; French conquest of Corsica; Treaties of Tilsit; Invasion of Portugal (1807); Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808); Treaty of Fontainebleau (1807) (show all 21); War of the Oranges (1801); Peninsular War; Siege of Zaragoza (1808); Battle of Bailén (1808); Battle of Vimeiro (1808); Battle of Roliça (1808); First Battle of Porto (1809); Convention of Sintra (1808); Capitulation of Madrid (1808); Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil (1807); Siege of Zaragoza (1809); First Battle of Porto (1809); Second Battle of Porto (1809); Construction of the Lines of Torres Vedras (1809); Siege of Cadiz (5 February 1810 to 24 August 1812)

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