Battle of Ocaña
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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 Aréizaga, which suffered its greatest singl
Engraving of the battle after an Adolphe Roehn painting
1892 illustration of Milhaud's 12th Dragoons charging the Spanish infantry
Juan Carlos Aréizaga
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Juan Carlos Aréizaga y Alduncín was a Spanish military commander.
Battle of Ocaña
…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 Aréizaga, which suffered its greatest single defeat in the Peninsular War. General Aréizaga's Spanish army of 51,000 troops lost nearly 19,000 men killed…
Juan Carlos de Aréizaga