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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). French military and political leader. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of France (1804-1815). Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon entered Spain on 4th November 1808. On the morning of 1st December 1808, the French dragoons appeared in front of Madrid. At midday Napoleon arrived at Chamartin, a town a league away from the capital, settling in the palace of the Duke of Infantado. "... that man so feared was already in Spain..." Los guerrilleros de 1808. Historia popular de la Guerra de la Independencia, by Enrique Rodríguez-Solís. Volume I. Published in Madrid, 1930.