The origins of the Tercios Especiales draw from the times of the Romans, when Viriathus, one of the leaders of the native tribes of Lusitania, used this kind of warfare and his military and political genius with great success, with betrayal being the only thing that stopped him. Also, during the Spanish Independence War, the invasion of Spain by Napoleon, the guerrilleros were the most successful defense Spain had, preventing total French control over the nation as they made it less than impossible for French soldiers to come out of a city without being attacked.
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| - The origins of the Tercios Especiales draw from the times of the Romans, when Viriathus, one of the leaders of the native tribes of Lusitania, used this kind of warfare and his military and political genius with great success, with betrayal being the only thing that stopped him. Also, during the Spanish Independence War, the invasion of Spain by Napoleon, the guerrilleros were the most successful defense Spain had, preventing total French control over the nation as they made it less than impossible for French soldiers to come out of a city without being attacked.
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| - The origins of the Tercios Especiales draw from the times of the Romans, when Viriathus, one of the leaders of the native tribes of Lusitania, used this kind of warfare and his military and political genius with great success, with betrayal being the only thing that stopped him. Also, during the Spanish Independence War, the invasion of Spain by Napoleon, the guerrilleros were the most successful defense Spain had, preventing total French control over the nation as they made it less than impossible for French soldiers to come out of a city without being attacked. However, the spark for the creation of the Tercios was the Hohenzollerns' War, where Carlist requetés (militias) assisted Francisco Serrano's army in stopping the French invasion. Former Carlist general Ramón Cabrera, who had broken with Carlism several years before the war, used this and knowledge about Bushido provided by Gregorio López Jiménez, the military attaché to the Spanish Embassy in Japan, to develop the idea of a guerrilla group that would be a formal part of the Army and would use their training to wreck the enemy's supply lines. The Tercios Especiales consider September 29th 1871 (the day when Cabrera met with King Leopoldo I, President Francisco Serrano and Minister of War Juan Prim to present his idea to them) their birth date.
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