M-Model 32117 Spanish guerillo

Guerrilla is a guerrilla war waged on the peninsula. Iberian (mainly in Spain) in the years 1808-1814 / 1815, which was led by Spanish partisans (then often called "gerylas") with the troops of Napoleonic France, which also included units made up of Poles. The main cause of this war was the attack of Napoleon Bonaparte on the peninsula. Iberian in 1808 and his desire to subjugate this area and forcing it to join the continental blockade. Despite Napoleonic victories in the open field in 1808, a guerrilla war broke out very quickly in Spain, which forced Napoleon to maintain a large occupation force in this area, much larger than the number of partisans. It is worth adding that the estimated number of the latter in 1812 was around 40,000. people. Waged in an irregular manner by the Gerasians, the war ultimately ended in a complete defeat of the French army, and many historians believe that the Spanish war was one of the indirect causes of Napoleon's defeat.