When the War of Independence broke out in 1808, Julián Sánchez enlisted as a volunteer in the militias and began to build his legend due to the different and personal way in which he faced the French invader.
A scene from the uprisings against the French in Madrid, painted by Eugenio Álvarez Dumont in 1887
A year before beginning the invasion of Spain, Napoleon Bonaparte was clear: «It is child’s play, these people do not know what a French army is. Believe me, it will be fast », the French emperor assured his generals, in the fall of …
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