Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo

When

26 Apr 1810 – 10 Jul 1810

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

40.60° N, 6.53° W

Description

1810 siege during the Peninsular War

1810 siege during the Peninsular War

In the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, in Salamanca, Spain, the French Marshal Michel Ney took the fortified city from Field 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 Masséna, who was bent on a third French invasion of Portugal.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo: French forces (28,000 men) under Marshal André Masséna take the fortified city of Ciudad Rodrigo on route into Portugal”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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