WAR INDEP

Question 1

WHEN

Answer 1

1808-1814

Question 2

contents

Answer 2

1. causes: Carlos weakness//Aranjuez//Abdi Bayonne//uprising Mad
2. Phases : victory // grand Armee/1812//Spain win//Br loose// TREATY VALENCAY
3. Features:
   - devastating //consequences//impact// new nature of fight
4. Bonapartist regime and REVOLUTIONARY AUTHORITY:
   -bonapartist regime // juntas

Question 3

CAUSES // EVENTS led to war

Answer 3

1. Carlos weakness to Napoleons regime: fontainbleu (1807)
2. Aranjuez (March 1808)
3. Abdications of Bayonne (may 1808)
4. The Uprising in Madrid (may 1808)

Question 4

CARLOS weakness to Napoleonic regime

Answer 4

• signs Treaty of Fointainbleu = free entry to fr troops
• allegedly GOAL = invade portugal
• real aim =conquer the whole peninsula

SE LA CUELAN

Question 5

Aranjuez riot

Answer 5

• French army = strategic positions
• Godoy afraid = prepares Royal fam —escape America
• Fernando (prince) + oppposition = prevents escape = pushing a riot
• Carlos 4 = abdicates in favour of his son

Strategic-Godoy-Riot-Abdication

Question 6

Abdications of Bayonne

Answer 6

Napoleon
* does not recognize Fernando as king
* Summons royal fam => BAYONNE
* Forces Ferni/Charli - renounce throne//abdicate
* Jose Bonaparte= king

Question 7

Uprising in Madrid

Answer 7

Royal family leaving Madrid for Bayonne
* people thought kidnapping
* revolts VS french troops = harsh repression ( 100s executions)
* riots spread = beggining war of indep

Question 8

PHASES OF WAR

Answer 8

1. Victory Spain Bailen (1st win)
2. Nap+ Grand Arme = dominate war
3. 1812 part FR army to russia = lost of advantage
4. Spain starts to win : effective guerrilla tactic + Duke Of W help
5. Fr army looses 2 last battles : San Martzial //Vitoria
6. French = Forced to leave spain

Question 9

End of war

Answer 9

Treaty of Valencay 1813
Fernando back to throne

Question 10

Features of the war

Answer 10

1. Devastating : 1000s dead/savage repression in resisting cities/devastated economy
2. Wars consequences:
   - war = struggle to place Fernando as the rightful king
   - Reinforce support of church: leading role in resistance
   - Hatred towards all french things ( symbol of occupation)
   - Conservative Patriotism (deep) = king+ church+ anti french feelin
3. Not only war between Fr/Sp = iternational/civil war
4. New nature of fighting **

Question 11

Guerrilla tactics // warfare

Answer 11

guerrilla= irregular / local bands
* civilian volunteers +locals+ former soldiers
* harass french forces
* use knowledge of the terrain
* complicity of locals

Question 12

The Bonapartist Regime

Answer 12

1. Frenchified =
   - support Jose 1
   - favour enlightened reformism
   - Jose 1 tries to inforce a regime based on liberal principles
2. Bayonne constitution of 1808 = CARTA OTOTGADA
3. Jose rejected by majority

Question 13

BAYONNE CONSTITUTION of 1808

Answer 13

• Carta otorgada **where Jose 1s political system shape
• . Bonapartist regime tries reforms: 5
  Printing/trade freedom
  Abolishion Inquisition/Monasteries
  Church more regulated by state
• never established = war situation

Question 14

Revolutionary authority = COMITEES = JUNTAS

Answer 14

• King gone = task of organizing resistance = local comitees
  ( AUTONOMUS organizations leadered by prominent local figures)
• Local comitees set up = provincial comitees = central comitees
• TASK OF CENTRAL COMITEE = fill out lack of power / fight Fr
• Central Comitee 1810 —> collective regency in Cadiz = rule** in the name of Ferni**

Question 15

Cadiz

Answer 15

effective capital of unnocupied Spain
british fleet protection (gibraltar)
high liberal activity

Question 16

during war : power

Answer 16

2 parallel ruling powers coexist:
- bonapartist regime
- juntas // revolutionary authority