Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros
The Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros took place during of the Napoleonic Wars, fought on 10 and 11 November 1808 at the village of Espinosa de los Monteros in the Cantabrian Mountains. It resulted in a French victory under Marshal Victor against Lieutenant General Joaquín Blake's Army of Galicia.
Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros
Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1807 by Emperor Napoleon I.
Portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812
Victor as a lieutenant-colonel of 5th Bouches-du-Rhône Battalion in 1792, by Georges Rouget (1835)
Heraldic achievement of Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno