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1 day ago · Spain was an ally of Napoleon's First French Empire; however, defeat in the naval Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805, which had decimated Spain's navy, had removed the reason for alliance with France. Manuel Godoy, the favorite of King Charles IV of Spain, began to seek some form of escape.
5 days ago · In 1808, Charles IV of Spain abdicated his throne, elevating his son, Ferdinand VII, to the throne of Spain. Napoleon soon afterwards forced both father and son to turn over their right to rule to him. Who did Napoleon elevate to be King of Spain? Hint
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4 days ago · Ferdinand had gained widespread support for his plan to replace his father (spurring a movement of people who referred to themselves as fernandistas ), and Charles IV abdicated the throne on March 19, 1808. King Ferdinand VII then ruled Spain.
3 days ago · This Golden Age was destroyed by the Habsburgs, a foreign dynasty (‘the Austrians’). Having defeated the ‘national’ rebellion of the Comuneros in 1521, Charles V strove to impose the writ of the Counter Reformation not only on the Spanish, but also to on other peoples of Europe. In doing so, he and his successors exhausted the economic ...
1 day ago · The abdication of Kings Charles IV of Spain and Ferdinand VII of Spain and the installation of Napoleon's brother as King José provoked civil wars and revolutions, leading to the independence of most of Spain's mainland American colonies.
2 days ago · On 2 May 1808, while blood was still being shed in the streets of Madrid, Napoleon dined in Bayonne with the “kings” of Spain, Charles IV and his son Ferdinand VII.
3 days ago · Joseph Bonaparte, his brother, appointed king of Spain and its colonies 1808-1813 never signed a document for Latin American independence. Napoleon did not relinquish any of these rights, and upon losing the war in Spain, restored the Spanish crown to his prisoner Ferdinand VII in 1813 in full in the Treaty of Valençay.
