Battle of Bailén

When

16 Jul 1808 – 19 Jul 1808

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

38.10° N, 3.80° W

Description

1808 battle during the Peninsular War

1808 battle of the Peninsular War

The Battle of Bailén was fought in 1808 between the Spanish Army's Army of Andalusia, under General Francisco Javier Castaños and the French Imperial Army's 2nd Gironde Observational Corps under Divisional-General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang. The first open-field defeat of a Napoleonic army, the battle's heaviest fighting took place near Bailén, a village by the Guadalquivir river in the Jaén province of southern Spain.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Peninsular War: Battle of Bailén: French General Dupont surrenders to Spanish irregular forces”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Schlacht bei Bailén”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les Français sont défaits à Bailen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Французские войска дивизионного генерала Пьера Дюпона разбиты испанцами при Байлене (Битва при Байлене)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Batalla de Bailén”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “バイレンの戦い：スペイン軍がフランス軍を破り、22日に約2万が降伏。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Peninsular War2 May 1808 · War of independence