Astorga 1    The Combat of Barquilla (11 July 1810) was a minor skirmish between British and French forces two days after the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo,...

Marshal Andrés Pérez de Herrasti on 10 July 1810 after a siege that began on 26 April. Ney's VI Corps made up part of a 65,000-strong army commanded by André...

2 Astorga 1    The Combat of the Côa (July 24, 1810) was a military engagement that occurred during the Peninsular War period of the Napoleonic Wars...

Peninsula". He compared this action with the combat of Barquilla (or Villar de Puerco), fight in July 1810 in similar conditions (unsuccessful cavalry...

Peninsular War Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810) – 1810 – Peninsular War Siege of Mequinenza – 1810 – Peninsular War Combat of Barquilla (1810) – 1810 – Peninsular...

itself in the secure port of Cádiz in 1810. The British army, under Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, guarded Portugal and campaigned...

Portuguese garrison. This action was fought in the summer of 1810 during the Peninsular War portion of the Napoleonic Wars. Almeida is located in eastern Portugal...

of Ciudad Rodrigo: French Marshal Michel Ney takes the fortified city from Field Marshal Don Andrés Perez de Herrasti July 11 - Combat of Barquilla:...

fragmented into quarrelling provincial juntas. In 1810, a reconstituted national government, the Cortes of Cádiz—effectively a government-in-exile—fortified...

Napoleon, King of Rome. With the annexation of the Papal states (May 1809, February 1810), Holland (July 1810) and the northern coastal regions of Westphalia...