The Battle of Orthez saw the Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese Army under Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington attack an Imperial French army led by Marshal Nicolas Soult in southern France. The outnumbered French repelled several Allied assaults on their right flank, but their center and left flank were overcome and Soult was compelled to retreat. At first the withdrawal was conducted in good order, but it eventually ended in a scramble for safety and many French soldiers became prisoners. The engagement occurred near the end of the Peninsular War.
The Final Charge of the British Cavalry at the Battle of Orthez, by Denis Dighton
Comte d'Erlon
Lowry Cole
Eloi Taupin
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