Battle of Albuera
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The Battle of Albuera was a battle during the Peninsular War. A mixed British, Spanish and Portuguese corps engaged elements of the French armée du Midi at the small Spanish village of Albuera, about
William Beresford disarming a Polish lancer at the battle
Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult
The 13th Light Dragoons attacking French horse artillery at the battle
General Joaquín Blake y Joyes
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was a British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellingto
Battle of Albuera
…garrisoned. In April, following news of Masséna's complete withdrawal from Portugal, Wellington sent a powerful Anglo-Portuguese corps commanded by General Sir William Beresford to retake the border town. The Allies drove most of the French from the surrounding area and began the siege of Badajoz. Soult rapidly gathered a new…
Portrait of Lord Beresford by William Beechey, 1815
William Carr Beresford surrenders to Santiago de Liniers in Buenos Aires, 1806
Field-marshal Beresford – Coudelaria de Alter, Portugal
The Battle of Albuera by William Barnes Wollen