Timeline for Why was Spanish Fascist dictatorship left in power after World War II?
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| Oct 16, 2016 at 23:42 | history | edited | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 21:47 | comment | added | Tom Au | @Pieter Geerkens: Wellington's quarrel wasn't with "Spain," it was with Joseph Bonaparte. But Franco didn't "rise" to quite that level. And if the UK had chosen to attack Franco, about half the Spanish population (the Republican half) would have supported them. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 21:29 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | War of Spanish Succession I accept - Wellington's and Moore's campaigns in Spain are disputable, given that the Spanish populace supported them. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 18:12 | comment | added | Tom Au | Pieter Geerkins: Peninsular War, for siding with Napoleon, Queen Anne's War (1707) vs. Louis XV and his grandson Philip, King of Spain. I'm going to leave out Drake's raid on Cadiz, since that wasn't an invasion. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 16:58 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | When did this ever happen? "Britain was the one country that had historically invaded and "punished" Spain." | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 14:13 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |