Peninsular War

noun

the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars

He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.

The price of salt at one period of the long Peninsular war rose to £30 per ton, being retailed in Birmingham at 4l.

The huts, literally baraques, assigned to us were old, dating from the Peninsular War.

The whole Peninsular war forms a commentary on this text, with Waterloo for a crowning lesson.

Records of the Peninsular War relate similar stories in reference thereto.

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