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Title
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Ruins of Saragossa
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Rights
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The British Museum, public domain
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Creator
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Brambila, Fernando (1763-1834)
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Date
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1808-1814
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Description
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The peninsular wars (1808-1814) was one of the longest campaigns during the Napoleonic Wars, following Spain's alliance with France Napoleon boldly put his brother Joseph as king, this angered the Spanish and Portuguese as France was invading the Iberian peninsula. The Spanish and Portuguese organized guerrilla style warfare, largely different from the line battles and large calvary charges. This guerrilla warfare was street-to-street and brutal, civilians and militias took arms with the Spanish army to fight the French, the peninsular wars was considered the most "violent" campaign of the war, civilians were abused, stripped, and executed.
This picture shows a fictional character in a series of novels "the Ruins of Saragossa" Josef de Hera fighting against the French, in many of these pictures he is in civilian workers clothes fighting French soldiers against the injustices of their cruelty. Behind the scene of the brawl, there is another dead soldier and a dead family in the alleyway.
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Format
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etching
Height: 331 mm
Width: 233 mm
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
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Contributor
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Timothy Jackson
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Identifier
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The British Museum, 1899,0713.174
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Subject
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Napoleonic Wars; France; 1800s;19th Century; Officer; military; uniform; Spain; guerilla
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Source
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jpeg file, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1899-0713-174
Frenchie getting socked