The Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros took place during the Napoleonic Wars, on 10 and 11 November 1808 at the village of Espinosa de los Monteros in the Cantabrian Mountains. It resulted in a French
Bataille d'Espinosa, G.33629
Claude-Victor Perrin
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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 Na
Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros
…Napoleonic Wars, 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. The Dos de Mayo Uprising had put Iberia in revolt against French rule. The Spanish conventional…
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
Jean Baptiste de Villèle