Plaza Dos de Mayo

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Data: May 2 (veure totes les cronovies d’aquest dia)

Photograph: Intercultura (Luboš Kožíšek) (2013-02-11)

1808. Uprising of the people of Madrid against Napoleonic forces.

On May 2, 1808 the people of Madrid rebelled against the occupation of the city by French troops, provoking a brutal repression by the French Imperial forces and triggering the Peninsular War.

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