This uprising quickly coalesced into an armed popular movement that the French were never able to suppress over a period of nearly six years. But the conservative, proud, religious, and xenophobic native populations had reacted initially to these foreign forces with a fear and loathing that exploded eventually into fury and violent opposition in the form of a spontaneous, general, leaderless, and massive insurrection. Six months earlier French armies of the Napoleonic Empire had begun their invasion and occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. The month of May, 1808 marked the commencement of a terrible tragedy for the peoples and nations of Spain, Portugal, and France.
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