Cochrane’s Castle
In 1808 Napoleon Bonaparte made his momentous decision to invade Spain, an ally at the time, and replace its government with one headed by his brother Joseph. It was a disastrous mistake that set-in train the six-year long Peninsula War. The Spanish population rose up against the invaders, tens of thousands of French troops became locked in an endless guerrilla war, and it provided the perfect ground for the British, along with their Portuguese and Spanish allies, to fight th
