After Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in 1799, the Spanish court proved to be a weak extension of French policy. Charles IV’s latent weakness encouraged the French cause around the invasion of Portugal in 1801. A year later, France and England signed the Peace of Amiens, but their confrontation was soon to resume, and Spain became involved in this confrontation. The direct consequence of this situation was the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), where the Spanish fleet was destroyed by Admiral Nelson’s squadron. This defeat led to a further weakening of control of the overseas territories, which resulted in considerable economic collapse.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XIX

Scope: Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://dokuklik.euskadi.eus/badator/visor/016/00467

Resource type: Historical source

Format: Unknown

Source: Euskadiko Artxibo Historikoa - Archivo Histórico de Euskadi. Fondo: Archivo de la Casa de Ramery. Sección: Ramery. Serie: Correspondencia, varios. Inventario: Inventario de S. Múgica (1900). (El Archivo desapareció quemado; solo se conserva la copia digitalizada del microfilm). Legajo: 3. Número legajo: 7

Language: Spanish

Date: 1805

Owner: Álvaro Chaparro Sainz (Modernalia)

Identifier: Dokuklik/24751

Copyright: © Eusko Jaurlaritza-Gobierno Vasco * Euskadiko Artxibo Historikoa - Archivo Histórico de Euskadi

Abstract: List of the dead and wounded on the ship Bahama, of which Don Tomás de Ramery was second-in-command, in the battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805

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