Invasion of Portugal (1807)
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The invasion of Portugal saw an Imperial French corps under Jean-Andoche Junot and Spanish military troops invade the Kingdom of Portugal, which was headed by its Prince Regent João of Bragança. The military operation resulted in the occupation of Portugal. The French and Spanish presence was challenged by the Portuguese people and by the United Kingdom in 1808. The invasion marked the start of the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars.
Entry of the French into Lisbon on 30 November 1807, painting by Luis António Xavier (c. 1807)
Géraud Duroc
Jean-Andoche Junot as a young man in 1792
François de Kellermann
Jean-Andoche Junot
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Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes was a French military officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for leading the French invasion of Portugal in 1807.
Junot as a sergeant of the grenadiers of the 2nd Côte-d'Or Battalion in 1792, by Félix Philipoteaux (1834)
Junot leading his troops against the Ottomans near Nazareth, in The Combat of Nazareth by Antoine-Jean Gros (1801)
Junot protecting the city of Lisbon, allegory by Domingos Sequeira (1808)
Junot and his wife Laure, by Marguerite Gérard