Somosierra (mountain pass)
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Somosierra is a mountain pass in the Sierra de Guadarrama north of Madrid in Spain. It connects the north of the Community of Madrid with the east of the province of Segovia. Just south of the pass is
Somosierra Pass
The Battle of Somosierra by Horace Vernet, 1816
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
Somosierra (mountain pass)
…3.9-kilometre-long (2.4 mi) rail tunnel. The road was originally a track opened up by Napoleon to provide a direct route to Madrid. In 1808 this led to the Battle of Somosierra between French-Polish and Spanish forces. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of Somosierra (1936) took place in the heights…
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