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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Wooster, Ohio]], established and named for [[David Wooster|General Wooster]].
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Joseph Bonaparte]] approves the [[Bayonne Statute]], a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain, during the [[Peninsular War]].
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Finnish War]]: Swedish troops under Colonel [[Adlercreutz]] force the Russians to withdraw in [[Lapua]].
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bailén]]: French General Dupont surrenders to Spanish irregular forces.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Peninsular War]]: British expeditionary force lands near [[Porto]].<ref name=CBH/>
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Finnish War]]: Swedish troops under [[Georg Carl von Döbeln|Carl von Döbeln]] defeat a Russian attack in [[Kauhajoki]].
* [[August 17]] 
** [[Peninsular War]]: [[Battle of Roliça]]: A British-Portuguese army under [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Sir Arthur Wellesley]] defeats an outnumbered French army under General [[Henri Delaborde]].
** The [[Finnish War]]: the [[Battle of Alavus]] is fought.<ref>{{cite book|title=När riket sprängdes: fälttågen i Finland och Västerbotten, 1808–1809 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNPRAAAAMAAJ |first=Eirik |last=Hornborg |language=sv |year=1955|publisher=P. A. Norstedts och Söners Förlag |location=[[Stockholm]]}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Peninsular War]]: [[Battle of Vimeiro]] &ndash; British-Portuguese troops under Wellesley defeat the French under General [[Jean-Andoche Junot]].
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Finnish War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Jutas]] &ndash; Swedish forces under Lieutenant General [[Georg Carl von Döbeln]] beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
* [[September 27]] &ndash; The [[Congress of Erfurt]], between the emperors [[Napoleon I of France]] and [[Alexander I of Russia]], begins.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Finnish War]]: A truce is declared between Swedish and Russian troops in Finland.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Runeberg |first=Johan Ludvig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jX4tAQAAMAAJ |title=A Selection from the Series of Poems Entitled Ensign Ståls Songs |date=1907 |publisher=G.W. Edlunds |pages=II-III |language=en |quote=...on account of the truce at Lohteå of the 29th Sept.}}</ref>