David McVicar's Goya-inspired staging places the action during the Peninsular War (1808–14), when Spain and its allies were fighting the forces of Napoleon. Maestro Daniele Callegari conducts.

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For the Spanish, it was their 'War of Independence' for their British allies, 'the Peninsular War'. These are the voices of witnesses to those momentous days.

500 # # $a A note on the plate states that 'The View, painted by Henry Aston Barker and Assistants, [is taken] from Drawings taken on the spot by Mr. [John] Burford ...

Amadeo was instantly confronted with a cortes that regarded him as an outsider, even after it had elected him King; politicians conspired with and against him; and a 1872–1876 Third Carlist War ...

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire ...

Colborne served in the Peninsular War (1808-14) and took part in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. After the war, he was promoted to colonel and became aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent. Colborne went ...

(See Thorpe for details.) He was MP for Maidstone (1784-1788) and Rutland (1788, 1808, 1814-1838) and though he began as a Whig moved increasingly to being a supporter of Tory governments but then ...

Lieutenant-General. Commander during the early stages of the Peninsular War, 1808, he was cut off from Portugal by the French and obliged to make a forced march to the coast at Corunna to embark his ...

The Peninsular War, as it became known, became Napoleon's 'bleeding ulcer', or his Vietnam, costing his empire nearly quarter of a million soldiers, in a war that looked increasingly unwinnable.

Doha, Qatar: Continuing the special programming in line with the anniversary of the ongoing war, Alaraby TV has launched a new political program titled “Fi Zamn Alharb – Taqdeer Mawqif” (In ...