Spain under Joseph Bonaparte

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Bonapartist Spain was a Napoleonic client state established in 1808 after Napoleon, who had stationed his Imperial Army in Spain under the pretense of a joint Franco–Spanish invasion of Portugal, forced the ruling Spanish Bourbons to abdicate, and installed his brother, Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne, which ignited a people's revolt by Spanish citizens and led to the Peninsular War, where France was defeated and forced to retreat from Spain. The kingdom was officially known as Kingdom of Spain and the Indies, with "the Indies" referring to the East and West Indies as well as Spain's colonial possessions more broadly. The texts of the Bayonne abdications and the Bayonne Statute take care to distinguish the traditional titles of King Joseph from the name of the kingdom. It never managed to exert control over these territories however, not only did the French invasion weaken Spain's grasp on its overseas empire, without Joseph Bonaparte being recognized as king anywhere in the Americas...

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