First Italian Campaign | The Egyptian Campaign | Second Italian Campaign | The Ulm-Austerlitz Campaign | The Prussian Campaign | The Peninsular War | The Austrian War | The Russian Campaign | From Lützen to Elba | The Waterloo Campaign The Peninsular War, 1808-1813, continued The English troops were welcomed when they landed in Portugal. Their commander Sir Arthur Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, defeated Junot's dispersed army at Cintra on August 30, 1808. Two months earlier, General Dupont's 18,000 men were forced to surrender. Napoleon was furious. "Brute! Fool! Coward! Dupont has lost Spain to save his baggage! What is happening in Spain is lamentable. My army is not commanded by generals who have made war, but by postal inspectors." "In warfare men are nothing, a man is everything." Napoleon sent word to his brother Joseph that he was leading a new French army to Madrid. "You need me there." After sweeping aside the Spanish forces, Napoleon arrived in Madrid on December 4, 1808. He immediately turned his attention to the English forces, eager to strike a blow at his most aloof enemy. But after an initial clash with Sir John Moore's troops near Valladolid, Napoleon was compelled to leave his force in Spain under the command of his marshals. Austria, which had suffered defeat at Napoleon's hands three times, was once again preparing for war. On February 21, 1809 General Lannes captured the stronghold Saragossa. It was to be one of the last decisive French victories. Wellington's combined force of English, Portuguese and Spanish soldiers steadily drove the French from the Iberian Peninsula. On January 19, 1812, Wellington beat the French at Ciudad Rodrigo. By July of the same year, he defeated General Marmont at Arapiles. Finally, Wellington routed the remaining French troops under Joseph's command in 1813, driving the French army over the Pyrenees back into France. The French army suffered 300,000 casualties during the six-year campaign. Napoleon's power faded as the death toll reached ever higher. By 1814, after crippling losses in Spain and Russia, the morale of the French people ebbed to its lowest mark.