Some more info on Portugal: Napoleon forced Portugal to accept the terms of the blockade, which were not accepted by all of our ministers. Many were supporting the idea of raising an army at least 70.000 strong and defend the country, which we could totally do because our borders had very good fortresses and we would have provisions, unlike the French and the Spanish. Also, we were allies of the British for hundreds of years and now we had to declare war and give our ships and men to the French to fight them, which was not in our mind. That agreement would make the British capture our colonies and attack our convoys, since they had maritime superiority. After much pressure our King accepted, much influenced by the pro-French and Napoleon's diplomats who were constantly coming here. Also the Crown didn't want another war with France and Spain and by the looks of that time, France controlled Europe and Portugal would be an island in the continent. But at the same time we tried not to hurt our relations with GB and we did not expelled the british who lived here (they were very numerous) or even attacked them and declared a full war. The British also had the hope of making us allies again and make Portugal a gateway into the continent. But at the same time PT was accepting this treaty, Napoleon was making the treaty of Fontainebleau, which was supposed to divide the country in 3 and give it to his deserving generals and another part to the King of Etruria. Also,the british learned and warned us that Napoleon was making a plan to eliminate the House of Bragança a.k.a. the Portuguese Royal Family. We did not believe this, but then Napoleon formed an army to invade us under Junot's leadership. He gave him the mission to rush to Lisbon and capture the Royal Family by the 1st of December. He flew to Portugal, not even waiting for the Spanish reinforcements, with around 30K men. They entered the country in 19 November and reached Lisbon by the 30th of November, but it was too late, as the Royal Family had fled to Brasil 3 days early, with the escort of the British Navy. From the 30K men, Junot only entered in Lisbon with 1.500 (the rest were too tired and without equipment and were left behind to recover), as the Lisbon garrison had about 15K but did nothing, because the King didn't want his country destroyed and he told everyone to receive well the French and to not resist. The new capital of the empire would be Rio de Janeiro in Brasil and here started the Brasilian road to independence, because Portugal basically started being 'a colony of a colony', as all the administration, commerce and industry moved over to Brasil, that until that point had been only producing raw materials and sending them to PT. The French only had Lisbon and the Spanish were in the north and south of the country, but the guerrila warfare and revolts against the French tired them out, until the British came to help and we started organizing our army again for a counter-attack. Then came the 2nd and 3rd invasion of PT. The second one came through the north, under leadership of Soult and conquered and held Porto (and all the north) for some months, but they were defeated eventually by guerrila tactics and the British Army with some portuguese divisions. The 3rd came through the center and aimed at the capital Lisbon, under Massena's command, but the portuguese made the scorched earth tactic and Wellington built the famous "Linhas de Torres Vedras" - a three section of defensive lines that were built on the north and east of the Lisbon territory. the west and the south were protected by both sea and river and the French couldn't pass it because we had the navy defending there. They had no supplies and failed every assault and eventually they were defeated.
Khan Academy Hi, you said a few wrong things. The portuguese King was never dethroned. He moved the capital to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and remained ruling his empire, losing only temporarily control of the smallest part of the empire, continental Portugal. And you should speak more about the role of Portugal and the king leaving the country. Napoleon was in control of Spain but never in control of Portugal because of that. And he only occupied Lisbon and some towns around, after that they left. ANd every other time they came we would fight. And our king gave orders not to fight the french. Their goal was to stop trade with England, by moving to the colonies he was able to continue the alliance with england, contrarily to the spanish which compeltely lost control of their colonies. We even had an expression to when you just miss something, or when you try to achieve something and you failed. "ficar a ver navios" "staying watching ships". Because the french arrived to LIsbon just to see a fleet with 15 000 people, all the required to run the empire, leaving.
Funny fact: Napoleon send three generals at diferent times and invasions (1st invasion by Junot, 2nd by Soul and 3rd by Massena). They weren`t successful in taking Lisbon. But one city resisted all the atacks ( Porto in portuguese or Oporto in english ) The city`s nickname is the unbeaten.
many ppl don't know this but grand armee had a Portuguese legion commanded by Portuguese generals majors they fought Spanish and went to fight Russians where most of them died there, only 1000 came back after it was disbanded the great armee... half of them deserted to join Portuguese british army at the start but the other half actually fought on Frances side. it was only non occupied non aligned country with troops in napoleons army. At the service of Napoleon, the Portuguese Legion fought in the campaigns of Germany, Austria and Russia, suffering heavy casualties. It was present in the battles of Wagram, Smolensk, Vitebsk and Borodino (Moscow). Being highly regarded by Napoleon, the troops of the Legion were referred by him as the "Black Infantry". The Legion was disbanded at 5 May 1814, with only about 1000 of its soldiers surviving and returning to Portugal wikipedia
Great Video. Although I think that you could have given a little more focus to the Invasion of Portugal, mentioning the 3 Invasions and the Lines of Torres Vedras. Keep up the good Work!
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.
@austinoltj no, napoleon wanted to attack britain my friend, not england mate. And he took egypt too harm britain's trade from india to britain. Horatio Nelson put a stop to that when he defeated a french fleet on the nile there by causing napoleon to abandon his egyptian campaign.
And the portuguese population defeated napolean , and since we were allys from Britain, we asked for help and they come and took him off there along the portuguese army... The portuguese wasnt dethroned they went to Brasil, a portuguese colony
As a Portuguese i have to add something: Why would Portugal not participate on the continental system, like most of Europe? Well, Portugal and England had been allies for a long time. Also England threatened to take over Azores, a small archipelago between Portugal and Brazil. Also, why didn't Napoleon name one of his siblings to rule as king of Portugal? That's because they never dethroned Portugal, the royal family fled to Brazil before the French got there. Great video, as always :)
Portugal was the small dog of England for centuries. At the end England asked to take control of Portuguese colonies. Monarchy was agree. It shocked so much the Portuguese that they forced him to resign and the republic was proclaimed.
@@freewal Not quite. When Brazil became independent, Portugal lost most of it's economy, and started to rely on loans from England. By the time of the "pink map" when the English ultimatum was made, the Portuguese crown owed so much money to the English they didn't really have a say in the matter. So yes, what you say did happen, but it was not always the case that Portugal was the small dog of England. They got in that position due to owing large amounts of money to the British.
@SwooshParker I believe you can find most those facts,in Circulo de Leitores military history of Portugal volume IV,it is very detailed,about Napoleonic invasions in Portugal,the war Portugal-UK was of course unofficial,resumed to small skirmishes,between british and portuguese,and portuguese rebels,and thus just a footnote of history that only some books address.
Just to clear something up here, Napoleon was obsessed about undermining Britain....not England. England is only one part of Britain. And the whole of Britain and Ireland was obsessed about undermining Napoleon and France. Greetings from the UK :)
@austinoltj Once again it's not called england, it's called britain and I never said that the british wanted to invade egypt. Nelson just destroyed the french fleet stationed there. Yes the french army did invade egypt but without a fleet to bring them supplies it proved difficult to maintain an occupation. Eventually napoleon and the armee l'orient had to withdraw.
I was just on the website and at the end of the video on the 4th coalition I though, "oh no!!! there's no more!!!" but YAY there is haha. Can't wait to watch this and the next and the next and...well you get the idea. =D
@badsign1980 Without spanish people the liberation would have been simply impossible. In1808 ( Bailén ) was the first defeat of Napoleon armies, and british and the British had not yet come to the peninsula. Simply but true.
opiumisback actually France invaded Portugal 3 times and failed miserably everytime. Invasions comanded by Massena, Soult and Junot. Get you facts right.
@badsign1980 Yes Portugal had at the 3rd invasion 150 000 soldiers not counting guerrillas(made half of the french losses in Portugal),British troops never exceeded 40 000 soldiers,that say´s a lot. British tried to make this a protectorate,but were smashed in the north,and in Lisbon by republicans,Beresford decided to withdrawn immediately,with fear of total annihilation.
The politics of the Spanish crown and the Emperor were greatly oversimplified in this video and left out several key players. Separate study of the Spanish crown in the years leading up to 1808 is needed to understand its usurpation as a catalyst for the Spanish revolt.
Portugal resisted Napoleonic armeé invasion not one, but 3 times. Wellington started his european warfare career there. Without the Portuguese-British Army help, the spanish guerrilas wouldn't have made it, the spanish know that. And if Portugal had fallen, Wellington army and himself aswell would have been taken there by the french, and no Waterloo would have happened. Spain had no conventional army left, only guerrilas, who later agreed to help the Port-Brit army against the Napoleonic armeé.
@austinoltj You're obviously not a native english speaker and you're facts are some what inaccurate. Like I said before it's not england...it's britain. Secondly Napoleon wanted to harm britain by conquering egypt which will harm british trade. Nelson had put a stop to that by defeating the french fleet at aboukir which made the french army suffer badly due to lack of supplies as well as keeping british trade secure.
Why didnt Napoleon focus his entire effort into the eradication of the Inquistition? He wanted to liberate the human mind didnt he? He should have stuck to that. So sad to see it all fall apart at Waterloo because of militarily wasteful adventures. (the Spanish campaigne was not a waste though! it hurt the Inquisitions power structure!)
Geez how many times much you say the same sentence. You should do powerpoint so you can click instead of writing if thats why you have to say each point 5 times. Unwatchable.
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.
Some more info on Portugal: Napoleon forced Portugal to accept the terms of the blockade, which were not accepted by all of our ministers. Many were supporting the idea of raising an army at least 70.000 strong and defend the country, which we could totally do because our borders had very good fortresses and we would have provisions, unlike the French and the Spanish. Also, we were allies of the British for hundreds of years and now we had to declare war and give our ships and men to the French to fight them, which was not in our mind. That agreement would make the British capture our colonies and attack our convoys, since they had maritime superiority.
After much pressure our King accepted, much influenced by the pro-French and Napoleon's diplomats who were constantly coming here. Also the Crown didn't want another war with France and Spain and by the looks of that time, France controlled Europe and Portugal would be an island in the continent. But at the same time we tried not to hurt our relations with GB and we did not expelled the british who lived here (they were very numerous) or even attacked them and declared a full war. The British also had the hope of making us allies again and make Portugal a gateway into the continent.
But at the same time PT was accepting this treaty, Napoleon was making the treaty of Fontainebleau, which was supposed to divide the country in 3 and give it to his deserving generals and another part to the King of Etruria. Also,the british learned and warned us that Napoleon was making a plan to eliminate the House of Bragança a.k.a. the Portuguese Royal Family. We did not believe this, but then Napoleon formed an army to invade us under Junot's leadership. He gave him the mission to rush to Lisbon and capture the Royal Family by the 1st of December. He flew to Portugal, not even waiting for the Spanish reinforcements, with around 30K men. They entered the country in 19 November and reached Lisbon by the 30th of November, but it was too late, as the Royal Family had fled to Brasil 3 days early, with the escort of the British Navy. From the 30K men, Junot only entered in Lisbon with 1.500 (the rest were too tired and without equipment and were left behind to recover), as the Lisbon garrison had about 15K but did nothing, because the King didn't want his country destroyed and he told everyone to receive well the French and to not resist.
The new capital of the empire would be Rio de Janeiro in Brasil and here started the Brasilian road to independence, because Portugal basically started being 'a colony of a colony', as all the administration, commerce and industry moved over to Brasil, that until that point had been only producing raw materials and sending them to PT.
The French only had Lisbon and the Spanish were in the north and south of the country, but the guerrila warfare and revolts against the French tired them out, until the British came to help and we started organizing our army again for a counter-attack.
Then came the 2nd and 3rd invasion of PT. The second one came through the north, under leadership of Soult and conquered and held Porto (and all the north) for some months, but they were defeated eventually by guerrila tactics and the British Army with some portuguese divisions.
The 3rd came through the center and aimed at the capital Lisbon, under Massena's command, but the portuguese made the scorched earth tactic and Wellington built the famous "Linhas de Torres Vedras" - a three section of defensive lines that were built on the north and east of the Lisbon territory. the west and the south were protected by both sea and river and the French couldn't pass it because we had the navy defending there. They had no supplies and failed every assault and eventually they were defeated.
Khan Academy
Hi, you said a few wrong things. The portuguese King was never dethroned. He moved the capital to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and remained ruling his empire, losing only temporarily control of the smallest part of the empire, continental Portugal.
And you should speak more about the role of Portugal and the king leaving the country. Napoleon was in control of Spain but never in control of Portugal because of that. And he only occupied Lisbon and some towns around, after that they left. ANd every other time they came we would fight.
And our king gave orders not to fight the french. Their goal was to stop trade with England, by moving to the colonies he was able to continue the alliance with england, contrarily to the spanish which compeltely lost control of their colonies.
We even had an expression to when you just miss something, or when you try to achieve something and you failed. "ficar a ver navios" "staying watching ships". Because the french arrived to LIsbon just to see a fleet with 15 000 people, all the required to run the empire, leaving.
Funny fact: Napoleon send three generals at diferent times and invasions (1st invasion by Junot, 2nd by Soul and 3rd by Massena). They weren`t successful in taking Lisbon. But one city resisted all the atacks ( Porto in portuguese or Oporto in english ) The city`s nickname is the unbeaten.
Martim Xavier Soul successfully attacked Porto lol
13:21 "Him along with the British, along with the Portuguese...." lol
many ppl don't know this but grand armee had a Portuguese legion commanded by Portuguese generals majors they fought Spanish and went to fight Russians where most of them died there, only 1000 came back after it was disbanded the great armee... half of them deserted to join Portuguese british army at the start but the other half actually fought on Frances side. it was only non occupied non aligned country with troops in napoleons army.
At the service of Napoleon, the Portuguese Legion fought in the campaigns of Germany, Austria and Russia, suffering heavy casualties. It was present in the battles of Wagram, Smolensk, Vitebsk and Borodino (Moscow). Being highly regarded by Napoleon, the troops of the Legion were referred by him as the "Black Infantry".
The Legion was disbanded at 5 May 1814, with only about 1000 of its soldiers surviving and returning to Portugal wikipedia
A little correction. The portuguese wasn't dethroned. He went to Brazil, with all his family to garantee the independence of Portugal.
aaand thats why when a play EUIV with Portugal I allways go for Castilla Domination!
Can you use a darker arrow , when you point towards the countries ?
Great Video. Although I think that you could have given a little more focus to the Invasion of Portugal, mentioning the 3 Invasions and the Lines of Torres Vedras. Keep up the good Work!
Portugal didn't had the King dethroned, he just fled to Brazil, and changed the capital from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro...
Thank u...
During thsi period, Louisiana was administered by Spain. Carondelet was last Spanish Visroy of Louisiana.
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.
@wixnarara how did you figure that? when did napoleon ever set foot on portugal?
Very well explained. Thank you
+Natanail Lazarov Kind of...
That is really good................real ..........ly ..........good, you must teach kids.
Teach kids to be adults, not adults to be kids.
@SwooshParker Moreover, Portugal was a Brittish protectorate against Spanish designs, basically an English client state.
@austinoltj no, napoleon wanted to attack britain my friend, not england mate. And he took egypt too harm britain's trade from india to britain. Horatio Nelson put a stop to that when he defeated a french fleet on the nile there by causing napoleon to abandon his egyptian campaign.
I can't believe they kidnapped the Pope. Napoleon had guts, I'll give him that
he also was a pretty good strategist at some point until his downfall
And the portuguese population defeated napolean , and since we were allys from Britain, we asked for help and they come and took him off there along the portuguese army...
The portuguese wasnt dethroned they went to Brasil, a portuguese colony
As a Portuguese i have to add something:
Why would Portugal not participate on the continental system, like most of Europe? Well, Portugal and England had been allies for a long time. Also England threatened to take over Azores, a small archipelago between Portugal and Brazil.
Also, why didn't Napoleon name one of his siblings to rule as king of Portugal? That's because they never dethroned Portugal, the royal family fled to Brazil before the French got there.
Great video, as always :)
Portugal was the small dog of England for centuries. At the end England asked to take control of Portuguese colonies. Monarchy was agree. It shocked so much the Portuguese that they forced him to resign and the republic was proclaimed.
@@freewal Not quite. When Brazil became independent, Portugal lost most of it's economy, and started to rely on loans from England. By the time of the "pink map" when the English ultimatum was made, the Portuguese crown owed so much money to the English they didn't really have a say in the matter. So yes, what you say did happen, but it was not always the case that Portugal was the small dog of England. They got in that position due to owing large amounts of money to the British.
Anyways I have to say I love your vids mate, keep it on
@SwooshParker
I believe you can find most those facts,in Circulo de Leitores military history of Portugal volume IV,it is very detailed,about Napoleonic invasions in Portugal,the war Portugal-UK was of course unofficial,resumed to small skirmishes,between british and portuguese,and portuguese rebels,and thus just a footnote of history that only some books address.
Just to clear something up here, Napoleon was obsessed about undermining Britain....not England. England is only one part of Britain. And the whole of Britain and Ireland was obsessed about undermining Napoleon and France.
Greetings from the UK :)
@austinoltj Once again it's not called england, it's called britain and I never said that the british wanted to invade egypt. Nelson just destroyed the french fleet stationed there. Yes the french army did invade egypt but without a fleet to bring them supplies it proved difficult to maintain an occupation. Eventually napoleon and the armee l'orient had to withdraw.
What video is after this?
yup
I was just on the website and at the end of the video on the 4th coalition I though, "oh no!!! there's no more!!!" but YAY there is haha. Can't wait to watch this and the next and the next and...well you get the idea. =D
@badsign1980 Without spanish people the liberation would have been simply impossible. In1808 ( Bailén ) was the first defeat of Napoleon armies, and british and the British had not yet come to the peninsula. Simply but true.
@SwooshParker
My mistake its volume III not IV of "Nova História Militar de Portugal" Dir Manuel Themudo Barata,and Nuno Severiano Teixeira.
Napoleon did not take Portugal only Lisbon
Thats correct he fled and left a regency in his name to rule Portugal.
France and Spain did not conquer Portugal, only Lisbon
opiumisback actually France invaded Portugal 3 times and failed miserably everytime. Invasions comanded by Massena, Soult and Junot. Get you facts right.
@@pimpinelalol France controlled Lisboa, Porto and the south. Their Portuguese king fled. He refused to fight.
Why do you refer to Britain as England?
has this guy received any honorary doctorates yet?
@badsign1980
Yes Portugal had at the 3rd invasion 150 000 soldiers not counting guerrillas(made half of the french losses in Portugal),British troops never exceeded 40 000 soldiers,that say´s a lot.
British tried to make this a protectorate,but were smashed in the north,and in Lisbon by republicans,Beresford decided to withdrawn immediately,with fear of total annihilation.
The politics of the Spanish crown and the Emperor were greatly oversimplified in this video and left out several key players. Separate study of the Spanish crown in the years leading up to 1808 is needed to understand its usurpation as a catalyst for the Spanish revolt.
Britain. It's Britain. You seem like a person well versed in history yet you keep referring to "England".
you said 1808 and wrote 1802 ~5:12 and it's driving me crazy
that's what you get when you mess with us spanish. haha
so how long waws the pope in frech captivaty?
Napoleon's spanish ulcer.. as he called it. led to his ultimate downfall.
Iberian peninsula or Hispania, just pick the greek or roman name for it :)
Simplistic and basic. And the continual swapping of Britain/England was tiresome.
La unica versión de la intervención inglesa en la Península y me la voy a encontrar de un inglés,que cuenta la historia como le conviene,No gracias.
you missed out the battle of Trafalgar...
Earlier video
good effort ,but you missed just about everything that happened....
"Napoleon's Peninsular Campaigns" - 90% about Spain
You really need to redone this and check better some facts!
even the reasoning behind the initial occupation skipped all the build up and reaosning. this isn't history, dude...
Portugal resisted Napoleonic armeé invasion not one, but 3 times. Wellington started his european warfare career there. Without the Portuguese-British Army help, the spanish guerrilas wouldn't have made it, the spanish know that. And if Portugal had fallen, Wellington army and himself aswell would have been taken there by the french, and no Waterloo would have happened.
Spain had no conventional army left, only guerrilas, who later agreed to help the Port-Brit army against the Napoleonic armeé.
@austinoltj You're obviously not a native english speaker and you're facts are some what inaccurate. Like I said before it's not england...it's britain. Secondly Napoleon wanted to harm britain by conquering egypt which will harm british trade. Nelson had put a stop to that by defeating the french fleet at aboukir which made the french army suffer badly due to lack of supplies as well as keeping british trade secure.
@badsign1980
u should buy another keyboard.
Why didnt Napoleon focus his entire effort into the eradication of the Inquistition? He wanted to liberate the human mind didnt he? He should have stuck to that. So sad to see it all fall apart at Waterloo because of militarily wasteful adventures. (the Spanish campaigne was not a waste though! it hurt the Inquisitions power structure!)
FIRST! Sorry, I just had to do that
Geez how many times much you say the same sentence. You should do powerpoint so you can click instead of writing if thats why you have to say each point 5 times. Unwatchable.
maudisse les Anglais
it reads like modern news propaganda....
I don't mean to be rude but if yo're gonna make a video like this you better at least learn the basics of the subject matter first.
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.
You missed something. Actually, the King of Portugal fled TO Brazil, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro. That unchained the events that led to Brazilian independence. Judging from the video, it seems that the author does not know that fact.