Ka cika wannan jumlar: Rashin amincewa da Tsarin Ƙasashen Turai da Portugal ta yi ya sa Faransa ta kai farmaki a ƙarshen shekara ta 1807. Wannan yaƙin ya zama tushen Yaƙin Peninsular, wanda zai ɗauki shekaru shida kuma ya lalata Daular Faransa na mahimman albarkatu da ma'aikata. Faransawa sun yi ƙoƙarin mamaye Spain a 1808, amma jerin bala'o'i sun sa Napoleon ya shiga tsakani da kansa daga baya a cikin shekarar. Sojojin "Grande Armée" 125,000 sun ci gaba, sun kama sansanin Burgos, suna share hanyar zuwa Madrid a
Yaƙin Somosierra, da kuma tilasta sojojin Spain su ja da baya. Daga nan sai suka yi yaƙi da sojojin Birtaniya na Janar Sir John Moore, wanda ya sa Birtaniya ta janye daga yankin Iberian Peninsula bayan wani aikin jaruntaka a yakin Corunna a ranar 16 ga Janairu, 1809. Yaƙin ya yi nasara, amma har yanzu zai ɗauki lokaci kafin Faransawa su sami damar mamaye Kudancin Spain.