The war started when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807 by transiting through Spain, and it escalated in 1808 after Napoleonic France occupied Spain, which had been its ally. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. The siege of Cádiz and Andalusia 1810–1812 2nd invasion of Portugal and northern Spain 1809
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