El Dos De Mayo....The Background

El Dos De Mayo....The Background An anniversary such as this one almost inevitably produces attempts to rewrite history and to present events in the best possible and most patriotic light. So the Dos de Mayo uprising is presented as the rebellion of an occupied people against a cruel French invasion of Spanish territory. However, calling the French presence in Spain in 1808 an "invasion" is not strictly accurate. The background to the Peninsular War lies in a couple of catastrophic decisions

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