>Napoleon ordered Junot to commence the invasion, with the cooperation of three divisions from the Kingdom of Spain.
>Paralyzed by fear and indecision, the Portuguese authorities offered no resistance. Junot occupied Lisbon on 30 November 1807 to find that John and many of the leading families had left for Brazil aboard the Portuguese fleet.
>The French quickly occupied the entire country and appropriated or disbanded the Portuguese army.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Portugal_(1807)
How can a country get BTFO so badly in 11 days?
>>1397071
Napoleon steamrolled other nations too. All of them were pathetic petty kingdoms
>>1397071
>How can a country get BTFO so badly in 11 days?
>>1397086
That was against Napoleon in person though
Portikek got BTFO in 11 days by a nobody
Portugal was always a benign growth on the back of Spain. As goes Spain, so must go Portugal.
Also, the transfer of the court to Brazil was one of the decisive reasons to the independence in 1822.
>>1397099
>independence
and that's how a meme country named Brazil was born
>>1397102
t. Al-berto Barbosa
>>1397092
We're older than you
>France
>Laughing when it only lasted a month longer when it actually tried to defend itself, with legitimate fortifications to boot
Oh hon hon, my froggy associates
>>1397178
Depends on how you view it. If spain is mainly a continuation of Castille and Leon they are older than you.
Also, why did you assume he was a Spaniard?
>People had enough of that shit and started fighting the french
>Like every fucking where you would have some asshole in the mountain making rocks fall down on convoys
>Delays it till Wellington comes to save us
We did a preety good job with this new fighting style if you asked me.
>>1397178
Lmao
Doesn't Portugal have some great military history or something? I remember someone posting an image similar to >>1397086 that showed how Portugal would BTFO everyone in the Middle Ages.
>>1397071
Doesn't change yesterdays football match
>>1397086
Napoleon on the battlefield is OP
>>1397071
1812 remains the ultimate BTFO desu senpai.
>>1398690
Yep
Fucking Russian winter man
When le french anal devastation from yesterday kicks in
João VI was a fucking coward, pig and cuck.
everyone hates him.
>>1397071
Stupid french, we didn't offer much resistance because before Junot came the portuguese were actually in favour of the french republic. Afterwards we handed napoleon his first defeat when he tried invading with soult and massena.
>>1398827
this is a meme created by brazilian historians.
He was actually pretty ok considering the conditions that he faced.
tbf that was because of poor leadership, when the french actually came up against a competent leader in Iberia they got btfo
>>1399235
>Wellington
>Competent
It took this dude 6 years to take back a small country like Spain despite not even facing the main French army
As a comparison, it took Napoleon a month to conquer his way from Warsaw to Moscow and it took the Russians 2 years to fight their way from Warsaw to Paris
>>1397071
>How can a country get BTFO so badly in one final while they are playing in their own country?
There I fixed it Jean-Pièrre
>>1399496
>It took this dude 6 years to take back a small country like Spain despite not even facing the main French army
firstly spain isnt small, it was once one of the great powers and in terms of land its similar in size to france albeit dryer and less pleasant
secondly, he did that at the end of a quite shitty supply line with infrequent reinforcements and unreliable allies.
and while the grande armee didnt make a appearrance he did draw off substantial numbers of french troops for the course of the campaign, it was a front that always drained french resources
>>1397086
Portugal's move to relocate the court to Brazil was - in hindsight - a wise move. It brought them closer to the real money-maker.
>>1399496
>6 years
Actually it took him around 1 year.
Pic related was when he started his main offensive.
>>1400149
forgot pic
>>1399496
>Spain
>Small
Nigga u mad? Spain is the biggest country in Europe only behind by France.
>>1399856
>>1400184
Since you guys are shit at geography, here's a pic
-Orange is the distance Napoleon conquered in three months of fighting in summer 1812
-Red is the distance Russia conquered in 2 years of fighting from 1812 to 1814
-Green is the distance Wellington conquered in 6 years of fighting against a secondary French army
>>1399496
That chart looks kinda cherry picked,is that wrong of me?
>>1400247
Im not defending an anglo scum, just saying that the Iberian peninsula can be lot of things, but not small. Also is very mountainous.
>>1400247
firstly your green line is rather shorter than was historically the case, by early 1814 the british were across the border and into france
and secondly wellington fought with far more limited resources than either the russians or the french, he had far fewer troops available, far more limited supplies due to the nature of the conflict and how far he was operating from his bases.
he faced french armies of at least equal size, and generally equal or superior supply and he beat them pretty consistantly for years.
you judge the merit of a general on what they achieved with the resources they had available to them, and wellington used his resources skillfully and successfully to beat his enemies
Loltugal
>>1402832
>>1397071
The Portuguese were advised by the British to surrender to Napoleon without resistence, and leave the country. They threatened Portugal if they handed over the treasury to the French, or made any treaty with them.
The Portuguese knew that they couldn't resist Napoleon forever, and accepted the British plan, relocating the entire state apparatus to Brazil.
When the first invasion arrived in Lisbon, it had suffered so many logistic problems through Portugal and Spain, that barely 11 thousand malnourished men arrived. The Lisbon garrison alone outnumbered them, but they surrended since the court had already left for Brazil.
>>1399181
he was actually mentally retarded
>>1397230
Portuguese be sayin they wuz lusitans n sheit
>>1398594
>Portugal would BTFO everyone in the Middle Ages
Because the huge majority of those battles were defensive ones, the offensive ones were against less advanced peoples in africa america india and asia
Portugal never had an exceptional army, it just got really really lucky that Spain was it's only neighbor which was too busy dealing with it's holdings in italy, the netherlands, catalan rebellions plus the english and french
>>1397071
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution
ahahah Napoleon got BTFO by a fucking slave riot!
The black Sparatcus Toussaint won, even tho he was caputured and killed.
>>1397178
The Caliphate of Córdoba dates to the 8th century.
>>1397209
>surrendering with your army intact
>and with your allies joining the war any moment now
Shame.
>>1398738
>Bistro, the french word for small restaurant, originated from the Russian bystro (быcтpo), "quickly". It entered the French language during the Russian occupation of Paris in 1814. Russian officers or cossacks who wanted to be served quickly would shout "bystro."
Russians, occupying France and dining in Parisian cafes 200+ years before the nazis.
>>1399235
Lamo Wellington wasn't competent he was a fking fag
>>1407460
>tfw Russians mastered the art of zerg rush way before WW2
Russians....Russians never change
>>1407453
>and with your allies joining the war any moment now
What allies?
If you're talking about Brits, they were in the war since it began
They simply ran away when shit hit the fan
