It wasn't as simple as religious division. The French were invaders, the Anglo-Portuguese liberators so the partisans - the best fighters - mostly worked with the latter. The powerful Catholic clergy sought corrupt deals with the French to shore up their political power but most of the Catholic population favoured the Anglo-Portuguese because Bonaparte's Revolution was not only secular but threatened tradition and national identity. Don't forget that there were mass popular urban uprisings against the French which were brutally put down. See Goya. Spanish royalty was more hindrance than help. You could think of the ideological battle as between culturally distinct continuity and universal modernity - both autocratic but that was life back then...
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It wasn't as simple as religious division. The French were invaders, the Anglo-Portuguese liberators so the partisans - the best fighters - mostly worked with the latter. The powerful Catholic clergy sought corrupt deals with the French to shore up their political power but most of the Catholic population favoured the Anglo-Portuguese because Bonaparte's Revolution was not only secular but threatened tradition and national identity. Don't forget that there were mass popular urban uprisings against the French which were brutally put down. See Goya. Spanish royalty was more hindrance than help. You could think of the ideological battle as between culturally distinct continuity and universal modernity - both autocratic but that was life back then...
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