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The third print in the Disasters of War series by Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828), between 1810-1820. Historians consider these works to have been Goya's protest to the Peninsular War and the subsequent rollback...

A c. 1815 oil-on-canvas portrait by Thomas Lawrence of Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Wellington is best known for leading the Allied army during the Peninsular War (1807-1814), for...

Battle of Busaco (27 September 1810), fought between a French army and an Anglo-Portuguese force during the Peninsular War (1807-1814). Watercolor by Richard Simkin, c. 1900. National Army Museum, Study Collection...

Sir Arthur Wellesley, Marquess (and later Duke) of Wellington in command of the British forces at Sorauren near Pamplona during the Peninsular War (1807-1814). Oil on canvas by Thomas Jones Barker, c. 1853. National...

The Portuguese royal family evacuates Lisbon for Brazil as the French army closes in at the start of the Peninsular War (1807-1814). Painting by Henri L'Evêque, 1812.

The last stand of Pedro Velarde y Santillán, a Spanish artillery captain famous for his death during the Dos de Mayo uprisings against French occupation at the onset of the Peninsular...

This granite menhir, located near the Castle of the Rock Goyon (Fort la Latte) in northern Brittany, France, and measuring 2.64 meters, has a very fine obelisk shape. It was broken in two by the film crew of The Vikings...

The Champ Dolent menhir in northern Brittany, France has been standing in its place since the beginning of the Neolithic period. Weighing about 120 tons, it was dug from a granite quarry 4 km away. It is 9.30 m high (just over...

Pages 2 and 3 of the Berlin Decree, signed 21 November 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I that kicked off the Continental System embargo on British trade.

French soldiers inspect goods in Leipzig in 1806, near the start of Napoleon's Continental System. By Gottfried Heinrich Geißler, 1824.