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Siege of Cádiz. The siege of Cádiz was a siege of the large Spanish naval base of Cádiz [5] by a French army from 5 February 1810 to 24 August 1812 [6] during the Peninsular War. Following the occupation of Seville, Cádiz became the Spanish seat of power, [7] and was targeted by 70,000 French troops under the command of the Marshals Claude ...
- 5 February 1810 – 24 August 1812
- Coalition victory
The General and Extraordinary Cortes that met in the port of Cádiz starting 24 September 1810 "claimed legitimacy as the sole representative of Spanish sovereignty ", following the French invasion and occupation of Spain during the Napoleonic Wars and the abdication of the monarch Ferdinand VII and his father Charles IV.
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1810 February: French Siege of Cádiz begins. 24 September: Cortes of Cádiz (national assembly) convenes in Cádiz. 1810-1813 – Population: 85,000. 1812 19 March: Spanish Constitution of 1812 adopted after deliberations of the Cortes of Cádiz. August: Siege of Cádiz ends. 1823 May: Ferdinand VII of Spain imprisoned at Cádiz.
Cortes of Cádiz. The placement of Joseph Bonaparte on the throne of Spain in 1808 by his brother Napoleon resulted in widespread resistance to the French organized by provincial juntas of Spanish patriots. With French troops occupying nearly all of the country by January 1810, the Central Junta of resistance at Seville turned authority over to ...
The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy : Promulgated in Cádiz, the nineteenth day of March. España. Constitución 1812. The General and Extraordinary Cortes of the Spanish Nation, well convinced; after the most minute examination and mature deliberation, that the ancient fundamental laws of this Monarchy, aided by every precaution and authority, which can enable and insure their ...
5 February 1810. Napoleonic Wars. Europe. Siege of Cádiz. In late 1809 the French routed the Spanish army at Ocaña and invaded southern Spain. Fleeing to the port of Cádiz, the government of the Spanish resistance held out against a French siege for two and a half years until 1812, when the Battle of Salamanca finally forced the invaders to ...
Following Napoleon’s usurpation of the Spanish king and royal family, the existing institutions of central and provincial government in Spain also fell. Governance then moved decentralized juntas, which did not seek to challenge the monarchical system, but rather presented themselves as temporarily acting on behalf of the king. Nonetheless this new structure opened up a space […]
