The Napoleonic Wars Podcast

The Peninsular War - The 1808 saga omnibus

472 min • 26 mars 2025

The Peninsular War is one of our most consistently demanded topics on this podcast. Following recent requests to make access the series easier, we're compiling the 1808 related interviews into one epic 8 hour saga of an omnibus episode.

Time stamps below.

Topics include: where the Peninsular War came from, if Napoleon should have gone to war or could have avoided it, what happened at the Battles of Bailen, Rolica, Vimeiro, and Corunna, the controversial convention of Cintra, and whether the Peninsular War really matter.

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1:40 - Origins of the Peninsular War

1:09:00 - The Battle and Campaign of Bailen

2:33:00 - The Battles and Campaign of Rolica and Vimeiro

4:13:30 - The Convention of Cintra

5:12:10 - The Corunna Campaign

6:30:45 - The Peninsular War - The Global Perspective

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