Battle of Ordal
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The Battle of Ordal was a meeting engagement on 12 and 13 September 1813 that saw a First French Empire corps led by Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet make a night assault on a position held by Lieutenant
Sir Frederick Adam
Lord William Bentinck
Charles Decaen
Tortosa's fortifications
Louis-Gabriel Suchet
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Louis-Gabriel Suchet, duc d'Albuféra, was a French Marshal of the Empire and one of the most successful commanders of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the Peninsular War, he was re
Battle of Ordal
…referred to as the Combat of the Ordal Cross) was a meeting engagement on 12 and 13 September 1813 that saw a First French Empire corps led by Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet make a night assault on a position held by Lieutenant General Lord William Bentinck's Anglo-Allied advance guard. The Allies, under the tactical direction…
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin
Suchet as a lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Ardèche Battalion in 1792, by Vincent-Nicolas Raverat (1834)
Heraldic achievement of Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duke of Albuféra
Suchet receiving the surrender of Tortosa on 2 January 1811 (detail), by Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (c. 1836)