Louis-Gabriel Suchet
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Louis-Gabriel Suchet, duc d'Albuféra, was a French Marshal of the Empire and one of the most successful commanders of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the Peninsular War, he was re
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin
Suchet as a lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Ardèche Battalion in 1792, by Vincent-Nicolas Raverat (1834)
Heraldic achievement of Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Duke of Albuféra
Suchet receiving the surrender of Tortosa on 2 January 1811 (detail), by Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (c. 1836)
Battle of Ordal
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The Battle of Ordal was a meeting engagement on 12 and 13 September 1813 that saw a First French Empire corps led by Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet make a night assault on a position held by Lieutenant
Louis-Gabriel Suchet
…at Vitoria on 21 June 1813, after which he was forced to evacuate Valencia. He withdrew to Catalonia, defeating the Anglo-Spanish force here at the Battle of Ordal, then to the Pyrenees before finally re-entering France, and afterwards took part in the defense of southwestern France until Napoleon's abdication in…
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Tortosa's fortifications