# The 1808 Spanish intervention and Dos de Mayo open a dated occupation-and-guerrilla war

Date: 1808

## The fact

In 1808 [Napoleon](/people/napoleon)'s Spanish intervention and the Dos de Mayo opened an occupation-and-guerrilla war. Joseph is the brother-king. Unique integers of the war are not invented here. Napoleon's documented role is: He forced a Bourbon abdication and put Joseph on the throne. Madrid rose; the war lasted years.

## Context

Murat held Madrid. Sharing the opening with that command is required. The setting of The 1808 Spanish intervention and Dos de Mayo open a dated occupation-and-guerrilla war is the public file around 1808-05-02. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/forced-displacement-scale) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of The 1808 Spanish intervention and Dos de Mayo open a dated occupation-and-guerrilla war. Naming Napoleon does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1808-05-02 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Peninsular War at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Fondation Napoléon — Spain 1808 at https://www.napoleon.org/en/ (Fondation Napoléon). Official carrier: Britannica — Peninsular War (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Fondation Napoléon — Spain 1808 (https://www.napoleon.org/en/; Fondation Napoléon).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Peninsular War (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from The 1808 Spanish intervention and Dos de Mayo open a dated occupation-and-guerrilla war on 1808-05-02. A forced dynastic occupation is a humanitarian-harm path of high weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The 1808 Spanish intervention and Dos de Mayo open a dated occupation-and-guerrilla war under 1808-05-02 for Napoleon. Established: a sourced public record of The 1808 Spanish intervention and Dos de Mayo open a dated occupation-and-guerrilla war under 1808-05-02.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not dump every siege. 2 May is the opening instrument. Mixed effects of The 1808 Spanish intervention and Dos de Mayo open a dated occupation-and-guerrilla war are separate paths.

The attached driver is forced-displacement-scale. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Napoleon: https://factrail.ai/people/napoleon

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://www.napoleon.org/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nap-spain-1808