Battle of Tudela
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The Battle of Tudela saw an Imperial French army led by Marshal Jean Lannes attack a Spanish army under General Castaños. The battle resulted in the complete victory of the Imperial forces over their
The Battle of Tudela January Suchodolski, 1827
Diagram of Spanish positions: Santa Barbara - La Peña Division
Recreation of the battle on the hill of Santa Barbara with the tower of the cathedral in the background
Battle of Somosierra
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The Battle of Somosierra took place on 30 November 1808, during the Peninsular War, when a combined Franco-Napoleonic Spanish-Polish force under the direct command of Napoleon I forced a passage throu
Battle of Tudela
…intact Spanish left moved towards Madrid to defend that city. Napoleon however moved more quickly, and after defeating a small Spanish army at the Battle of Somosierra on 30 November, his vanguard arrived in Madrid on 1 December 1808, with the city capitulating on 4 December 1808. Napoleon's strategy ultimately ended…
The Battle of Somo-Sierra Louis-François Lejeune, 1810
Myrbach painting shows Napoleon conferring with some of the Polish survivors of the charge
Somosierra, by January Suchodolski, 1860
The Charge, part of an unfinished panorama of the battle by Wojciech Kossak and Michał Wywiórski