López de Legazpi, now sixty-five, does not…

Spanish authorities, knowing that exiling so many will be problematic, decides to start with Valencia, where the Morisco population is greatest.

Preparations are taken in the strictest secrecy.

Starting in September, tercio battalions arrive from Italy, taking took up positions in the main ports of Valencia: Alfaques, Dénia, and ...

Suchet advances south from Valenica, capturing the port town of Denia in mid-January.

The redeployment of a substantial part of his troops for the invasion of Russia grinds Suchet's operations to a halt.

The victorious marshal has established a secure base in Aragon and is ennobled by Napoleon as the Duke of Albufera, after a lagoon south of Valencia.

The war now falls into a temporary lull, with the superior French unable to find an advantage and coming under increasing pressure from Spanish guerrillas.

The French have over three hundred and fifty thousand soldiers in L'Armée de l'Espagne, but over two hundred thousand are deployed to protect the French lines of supply, rather than as substantial fighting units.