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 adversaries. The combat occurred near Tudela in Navarre, Spain during the Peninsular War, part of a wider conflict known as the Napoleonic Wars.
Battle of Tudela January Suchodolski, National Museum in Warsaw
Diagram of Spanish positions: Santa Barbara - La Peña Division
Plan of the battle
Recreation of the battle on the hill of Santa Barbara with the tower of the cathedral in the background
Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello, Prince of Siewierz, was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Lannes in the uniform of colonel of the hussars, by Jean-Charles Nicaise Perrin (between 1805–1810)
Lannes' birthplace in Lectoure
Lannes as a Sous-lieutenant of the 2nd Battalion of the Gers in 1792, by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (1835)
Lannes at the Battle of Bassano, 1796