Editing Valencia (section)

====Peninsular War====
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The 19th century began with Spain embroiled in wars with France, Portugal, and England—but the Peninsular War (also known as the Spanish War of Independence) affected the Valencian territories and the capital city. The repercussions of the French Revolution were still being felt when Napoleon's armies invaded the Iberian Peninsula. The Valencian people rose up in arms against them on 23 May 1808, inspired by leaders such as Vicent Doménech el Palleter.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

The mutineers seized the Citadel, the [[Supreme Junta]] government took over, and on 26–28 June, Napoleon's Marshal [[Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey|Moncey]] attacked the city with a column of 9,000 French [[Grande Armée]] troops at the first [[Battle of Valencia (1808)|Battle of Valencia]]. He failed to take the city in two assaults and retreated to Madrid. Marshal [[Louis-Gabriel Suchet|Suchet]] began a long siege of the city in October 1811, and after intense bombardment forced it to surrender on 8 January 1812. After the capitulation, the French instituted reforms in Valencia, which became the capital of Spain when the [[Bonapartism|Bonapartist]] king, [[Joseph Bonaparte|José I]] (Napoleon's elder brother), moved the Court there in the middle of 1812. The disaster of the [[Battle of Vitoria]] on 21 June 1813 obliged Suchet to quit Valencia, and the French troops withdrew in July.{{cn|date=February 2025}}