Battle of Salamanca
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The Battle of Salamanca took place on 22 July 1812. An Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles, south of Salamanca, Spain, durin
1904 illustration of the battle
Seen from the village, the Greater Arapile (Arapil Grande) is on the right.
c. 1900 illustration of the battle
The charge of the 3rd Division
Siege of Badajoz (1812)
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In the siege of Badajoz, also called the third siege of Badajoz, an Anglo-Portuguese Army under the command of the Arthur Wellesley, the Earl of Wellington besieged Badajoz, Spain, and forced the surr
Battle of Salamanca
…abandon Andalusia permanently while the loss of Madrid irreparably damaged King Joseph's pro-French government. In April 1812, following the successful Siege of Badajoz during the allied campaign in Spain, Wellington and the greater part of the Anglo-Portuguese army marched north to expel Marmont's French army who had…
"The Devil's Own" 88th Regiment at the Siege of Badajoz, by Richard Caton Woodville
Siege of Badajoz
General Sir Thomas Picton storming the Castle of Badajos. March 31st 1812
British infantry attempt to scale the walls of Badajoz, the site of one of several bloody sieges conducted during the Peninsular War.