Traditionally the English have written little about themselves, sometimes by reluctantly and others for assault. However, on the events of 1808 there is a remarkable production, which again is the shock of these events led to a large majority of the nation.
As for the French memoirists, the phenomenon is of an impressive wealth, reaching its peak with the advent of the Second French Empire and the claiming of l'épopée napoleoniennes . But relatively few of those present in the streets of Madrid have left us their impressions, while there is a matching desire to circumvent the facts by the other, the result of bad conscience that, in general, left in all Madrid's French repression.
Among the dozen known memorials that were part of the troops Napoleonic occupation of the town and Court in May 1808 to include more Vantal of Carrère, added to the Corps of Observation of the Gironde of General Dupont. This great unit was deployed to the southwest of Madrid, with detachments in Toledo and Aranjuez, sending detachments to the capital.
Source:
- " Proceedings of the May 2"-José Manuel Guerrero Acosta .
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