Battle of Orthez
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The Battle of Orthez was fought on 27 February 1814 in the southwest of France near the end of the Peninsular War. An army of British, Spanish and Portuguese troops under Field Marshal Lord Wellington
1815 painting of the battle
Comte d'Erlon
Lowry Cole
Eloi Taupin
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
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Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia was a French military commander and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as President o
Battle of Orthez
…end of the Peninsular War. An army of British, Spanish and Portuguese troops under Field Marshal Lord Wellington attacked a French army led by Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult in southern France. The outnumbered French repelled several Allied assaults on their right flank, but their center and left flank were overcome and…
Portrait of Marshal Soult by George Healy, 1840
Soult's birthplace in Saint-Amans-Soult
Soult as a sergeant of the 23rd Line Infantry Regiment in 1792, by Vincent Nicolas Raverat (1834)
Anonymous portrait of Soult