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Battle of Bailén

16 juil. 1808 – 19 juil. 1808 · 38.10° N, 3.80° W

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16 juil. 1808 – 19 juil. 1808
Type
Bataille
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38.10° N, 3.80° W
Description
1808 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Bailén

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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