Treaty

Capitulation of Madrid

4 Dec 1808 · 40.42° N, 3.70° W

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When
4 Dec 1808
Kind
Treaty
Coordinates
40.42° N, 3.70° W
Description
1808 capitulation during the Peninsular War

Capitulation of Madrid (1808)

1808 capitulation during the Peninsular War

At the Capitulation of Madrid, on 4 December 1808, that city's military commander Tomás de Morla and the civil governor Fernando de la Vera, in representation of the Junta of Defence, capitulated to the Prince de Neuchâtel, Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, in representation of Napoleon, who had himself arrived two days previously at the head of over 40,000 troops, at Chamartin, then a small village just outside the…

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