The Battle of Ocaña was fought on 19 November 1809 between French forces under Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult against the Spanish army under General Juan Carlos de Aréizaga, which suffered its greatest single defeat in the Peninsular War.
Battle of Ocaña by Adolphe Roehn
Plan of the Battle of Ocaña
1892 illustration of Milhaud's 12th Dragoons charging the Spanish infantry
Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia was a French general and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as President of the Council of Ministers of France.
Portrait by George Healy, 1840
Soult as a sergeant of the 23rd Line Infantry Regiment in 1792, by Vincent Nicolas Raverat (1834)
Portrait of Soult
Soult as Marshal of the Empire. Copy of an 1805 portrait by Jean Broc