Peninsular War

British  

noun

1. the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars

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Peninsular War

“Those three years in the Peninsular War were a coming of age for William Miller,” Mr. Hemming writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

What was the result of the political distance between the Spanish American colonies and their home country during the Peninsular War?

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Gavin Daly, an expert in the Peninsular War at the University of Tasmania, said he believed the journal was a genuine "treasure".

From BBC ● May 9, 2016

With Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon in the Peninsular War and finally at Waterloo, he became Britain’s greatest military M.V.P. of all time.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010

Thus finished the Peninsular War, the last campaign of which had been the most active probably that is recorded in history.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William