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Hello, today we are going to study the Spanish War of Independence, which is on page 90 of the Social Science book.

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First, we have to understand what is the origin of this independence war.

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Everything started when Carlos IV was the king of Spain.

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Here you have him, okay, this one.

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And Godoy was his valido.

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this means that he was governing Spain while Carlos IV was the king. While this

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was happening in Spain, in France there was a revolution called French

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Revolution and France became a republic. Napoleon Bonaparte started to be the

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Emperor of France and he wanted to conquer more territories so he asked

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Godoy and Carlos IV to enter Spain in order to get Portugal and conquer Portugal.

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The problem was that when they were in Madrid, Napoleon took the power from Carlos IV and

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Godoy and gave this power to José Bonaparte, who was his brother.

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So his brother became the emperor of Spain.

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After this, this was in 1808, in the 2nd of May of 1808, there was a popular uprising

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that was violent in order to stop the French troops.

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And this was the beginning of the independence war.

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And how was the end of this war?

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Well, after some years of fighting between the French troops and the guerrillas, which

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were Spanish armed groups, they received help from the Portugal and Great Britain armies.

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And finally in the 1813 the French troops were defeated by Spanish and also José Monaparte

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left Spain.

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Finally another important thing about the independence war is that during this war in

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the 1812, the constitution of Cádiz was created. It was called La Pepa because José Buenaparte

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was called Pepe Botella. And this constitution was the first Spanish constitution and in

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this constitution they agree that all free men are equal and for the first time the government

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is chosen by vote and finally that the monarchy is controlled by the parliament okay so this

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was a very big change for spain and for europe and it was the start of the contemporary age