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March 22, 2024 • 00:18:20
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Brian's Spain Domain
Untitled Episode

Mar 22 2024 | 00:18:20

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The Napolean and his troops have moved into Spain to head for Portugal, but they’ve decided to stay. Spain, at the time France’s ally, doesn’t take kindly to that, and a war to get rid of invaders breaks out. On paper it should have been a cake-walk for the French, but the tenacious Spanish resistence […]

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