Which series of wars lasted from 1808 to 1814?
The Third of May 1808 other works, the more clearly I recognise that I was mistaken. The 1961 film "The Happy Thieves" features a plan to steal "The Second of May 1808" from Prado hidden under a copy of "The Third of May 1808". The Third of May 1808 The Third of May 1808 (also known as ' or ', or ) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular War. Along with its
Battle of Toulouse (1814) by news of repeated Coalition victories in northern and eastern France. Allied campaigning had gradually pushed French forces out of Spain during 1813, after endless guerrilla wars which had resulted in more than 300,000 French casualties between 1808 and late 1813. The French suffered greater losses in manpower in southern France, as Napoleon diverted many southern forces to bolster his troops facing the Coalition armies invading northern and eastern France after an allied victory at Leipzig in October, 1813. After Soult's defeat by Wellington at the Battle of Orthez in late February 1814, the French Marshal retreated north behind the