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Originally Posted by Calien
What I meant to say is that after the battle of Salamanca the British liberated central Spain including Madrid and Toledo for a period of about 5 months, after the French concentrated their army he retreated to Portugal again until 1813. So Toledo itself was under British/Spanish control for a few months that year.
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Indeed the battles of Salamanca and Talavera were a strategic move in war.
However i would guess that, the factory of Toledo having been emptied from equipment and personel to tansfer all to Seville (and later Cadiz) arguably such facilities would be operational during that short period. Temporary British control of the city would no be the same thing as having weapons being fabricated; no tools, no mills ... no resources.
Interesting how a Toledan blogger cares more about the Spanish coming back to the city as he doesn't mention the British, who were potentially more presential in neighbour Madrid.
"Toledo continuó estando ocupada por tropas tras la retirada francesa en agosto de 1812. Llegaron las tropas españolas, “los brigantes de Palarea, los del Abuelo y las del Comisario de Yepes”. Se hicieron fiestas por la proclamación de la Constitución y el fin de la Guerra...pero la situación seguía siendo grave. Ahora la ciudad debía acomodar a las tropas españolas, pero los mayores alojamientos habían sido destruidos y la situación de penuria azotaba todos los barrios."
Toledo continued to be occupied by troops after the French withdrawal in August 1812. The Spanish troops arrived, “the brigantes de Palarea, those of the Grandfather and those of the Comisario de Yepes”. Parties were held for the proclamation of the Constitution and the end of the War ... but the situation was still serious. Now the city had to accommodate the Spanish troops, but the main lodgings had been destroyed and the situation of hardship plagued all the neighborhoods