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Dos de Mayo Uprising (1808)

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2–3 May 1808 — Madrid rises against French occupation; hundreds are executed in reprisal. Goya painted the firing squads — war stripped of all glory. Remember.

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Chapter
Peninsular War (chapter 7 of Age of Revolutions)
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The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
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