(1808–14) Part of the Napoleonic Wars , fought on the Iberian Peninsula.
After French forces occupied Portugal (1807) and Napoleon installed his brother Wellington landed in Portugal (1808), where they fought the French in inconclusive campaigns until 1812. After Napoleon withdrew French forces to bolster his invasion of Russia, Wellington began his gradual advance into Spain. The British victory at the Battle of Vitoria (1813) and their march into southwestern France forced the French to withdraw from Spain and to reinstall Ferdinand VII as king (1814).