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Between 1808 and 1814, the British Army fought a war in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France. Aided by their Spanish and Portuguese allies, the British held off superior French numbers before winning a series of victories and driving them out.

The action of 10 November 1808 was a minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, in which a British frigate defeated and captured a French frigate in the Bay of Biscay.

In 1719, French troops attacked a nearby Louisiana mission in an event known to history as the Chicken War because it was little more than a raid on a henhouse. Nonetheless, the Spanish withdrew from East Texas for two years.

🗓️ On This Day – November 2, 1903 🚢🇵🇦 President Theodore Roosevelt ordered U.S. warships to Panama to ensure “free and uninterrupted transit” across the isthmus as Panama declared its independence from Colombia the same day.

1808 July 22: Spains defeats French occupying forces at Battle of Bailén. March 22: England defeats Denmark and Norway troops at Battle of Zealand Point. May 2: The Peninsular War begins as citizens of Spain begin uprising against the French occupiers.

November 9, 1919 (Sunday) The Communist Party of Denmark was established. Felix the Cat appeared in Feline Follies, marking the first cartoon character to become popular.

Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 4 to December 7, 1808. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively. Presidential election results map.

World's first aerial bomb is dropped over Libya On November 1, 1911, Italian army lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, while flying over Libya, tosses three grenades out of his plane over a Turkish camp, effectively dropping the world's first aerial…