Why did Spain never manage to conquer Portugal?

>Why didn't an unstoppable force meet an immovable object?

Because of luck and France.

>>79168132
We did. Why did Germoney never conquer Switzerland?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Union

>>79168132
because of the eternal albion

They feared the Portugese warrior.

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Eternal An*lo

>>79168701
>muh evil gabachos

It is England's fault

>>79168132
portugal is stronger

>>79168860

t. Joao Sousa

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the superior Portuguese warlords kept them at bay

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>>79168835
Not really, you actually supported Portugal's independence at the time when France had one of the most powerful armies in Europe while England was a tiny little island with a tiny little genepool.

>>79168860
>>79168907
>>79168797
That's something Alberto Barbosa would say!

ANGLO

The world feared and fear the iberian warrior so they did as the romans, DIVIDE ET IMPERA

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>the spanish are here
>brother i am coming

>>79168791
>>79168806
>>79168835
>>79168993
>>79169285
England helped us agaisnt Napoleon, not Spain

>>79169285
I don't know what happened that day but I do know that there were a fuckton of Spanish commanders that lead to an incredible fucking mess. Having too many commanders is as bad as having none.

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A cunt next to next to Spain asks other cunts about Spain. Which one could answer him?

>>79168132
they did, it was the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and it was ruled by the king of Spain

>>79168931
>you actually supported Portugal's independence at the time when France had one of the most powerful armies in Europe
No didn't happen

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>>79168132
They did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Union

Spanish emperors were so autistic that Portugal never recovered its former glory, it was one of the reasons of Portugal fall as a colonial empire.

>>79168766
A voluntary union of crowns, diferent coin and military is hardly a conquest
And this union utterly destroyed tbe greatest country to ever exist.
Show me a better country before the Iberian union.
We had everything, for the people who claim that we lacked social mobilty i ask to REALY read about degradados and the colonial policy in Brasil expecialy before we found gold. I also advice reading the general report of Brasil written in XV century and d. Dinis law.

>>79172093
Portuguese Restoration War
>>79172394
>Can't recover after 400 years
Typical Moortuguese

>>79173275
>Can't recover after 400 years
You also didn't recover, you are falling in the world power rank since that time. You were ruined by autistic cousin inbreds crown monarchs

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>>79169285
>14/25,000 k/d ratio

wow

>>79173511
good post

>>79173511
Occitaniggers btfo

>>79173422
Not really, the first Bourbon kings brought order to Spain and they pretty decent too.

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>>79173511
If we're measuring wiki-battle dicks on a Portugal thread, then this is bound to be post, so it might as well be me.

You must understand that Portugal, England, Spain and France have been in a banter battle since the dawn of time.

I'm waiting for the next round desu.

>>79175360
We wuz ..

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>>79168132
Well, they got Portugal after sucession war while most of high PT nobility and others supported the Spanish Kangz while most of people supported some random Guy.

>>79169449
Never heard of Fantastic War - pic related >>79169285

>>79168132
England and France wouldn't let them. England's half millennia alliance with Portugal started primarily as a means to contain Spain if I'm not mistaken.

>>79179216
>be Portugal
>have to show Spain how to fight moors
>have to show Spain how to sail the sea
>have to show Spain how to BTFO Napoleon using guerrilha
>have to show Spain how to put a dictator in place
>have to show Spain how to remove a dictatorship
>have to show Spain how to be poor and dependent on Tourism
So it goes to show that we also have to show Spain how to conquer Portugal.

>>79181903
Not really. It was a way of not being isolated from the continent and of not having their crown fall into French heads. Same for us, except with Spain.

>>79181792
The fantastic war did have La Lippe's army organisation, but the first two waves of Spaniards were defended by peasants using guerrilla tactics in the North and Beiras (the Anglo-Portuguese army was guarding the centre and the valley line to Lisbon). To the point where some wrote a letter to Marquis of Pombal to not help them because they could take it on their own.

Spaniard soldiers grew more afraid of the people than the army, since the people did not take prisoners and were less predictable.

>>79182287
>>have to show Spain how to BTFO Napoleon using guerrilha
>>>have to show Spain how to remove a dictatorship
Stop making shit up

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>>79182287
>have to show Spain how to fight moors

Nigga, we liberated you from moors and we conquered the strongest muslim kingdoms.

>>79182877
>We
You're galician?

>>79183091
Galicia was liberated by asturians

>>79173691
>>79174158
Indeed.

The o**itan had it coming.

>>79182287
>have to show Spain how to fight moors
>have to show Spain how to put a dictator in place
>have to show Spain how to remove a dictatorship
>have to show Spain how to be poor and dependent on Tourism
With WE WUZ countrymen, our country will never move foward.

>>79174212
you must be joking

the bourbons were better than the habsburgs, but both were absolutely terrible.

>>79183271
are you asturian?
or french, the frenchies helped a bunch too

galicia was considered part of asturias, and viceversa
it should be that way in modern times, but everyone wants to be a special snowflake so galicias, asturias and leon had to be separated

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>>79169285
who is this guy?