11 Rioseco 10 Valencia 9 Girona 8 Zaragoza 7 Cabezón 6 Cadiz 5 Alcolea 4 Valdepeñas 3 Bruch 2 Dos de Mayo Madrid 1 The Battle of Medina de Rioseco, also...
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Medina de Rioseco is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León and Spain. According to a 2011...
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counterattack. Paralyzed by disunity of command, the pair were defeated on 14 July at the Battle of Medina de Rioseco when Cuesta failed to close the gap...
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(disambiguation) Medina College (disambiguation) Medina Township (disambiguation) Medina de Pomar, a town in Burgos, Spain Medina de Rioseco, a town in Valladolid...
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Infantry square (category Tactical formations of the Napoleonic Wars)
(August 14, 1812). If a square was broken, as happened at the Battle of Medina de Rioseco (1808), the infantry could suffer many casualties although brave...
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Armand Charles Guilleminot (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
as well as the Battle of Medina de Rioseco, after which he was promoted to brigadier general. Shortly after, he was named Baron of the Empire and became...
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Peninsular War (redirect from Spanish War of Independence)
After defeating Spanish counterattacks, Moncey retreated. At the Battle of Medina de Rioseco on 14 July, Bessières defeated Cuesta and Old Castile returned...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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Army's II corps d'observation de la Gironde under General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang. This battle was the first open-field defeat of a Napoleonic army. The heaviest...
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north-west of the country. On July 14, at the Battle of Medina de Rioseco, Bessières, with around 14,000 men, faced two massed Spanish corps of about 22...
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Joaquín Blake (category Spanish commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
Armée despite the heavy odds against him. Blake and Cuesta were defeated at Medina del Rio Seco on 14 July. Following the general French retreat prompted by...
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Jean-Baptiste Bessières (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
Spanish, scoring a crushing victory in the Battle of Medina del Rio Seco, but proved slow and hesitant in command of a large force. Bessières was thus soon...
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Medina de Rioseco (1808). They fought also at the Siege of Astorga and the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810). The Gendarmes d'élite fought at the Battle...
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first time chevaulegers fought was on 14 July 1808, during the Battle of Medina de Rioseco (two squadrons under Radzimiński). On 30 November 1808 their...
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de Velasco II (c. 1465–1538), 4th Lord of Medina de Rioseco, was the 4th Admiral of Castile and played an important role in defeating the Revolt of the...
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Pierre Hugues Victoire Merle (category People from Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais)
wave of the 1808 invasion of Spain, which precipitated the Peninsular War. In Spain, he led his division at Medina de Rioseco, Corunna, First and Second...
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Bailén 11 Rioseco 10 Valencia 9 Girona 8 Zaragoza 7 Cabezón 6 Cadiz 5 Alcolea 4 Valdepeñas 3 Bruch 2 Dos de Mayo Madrid 1 The 1808 siege of Zaragoza...
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Bailén 11 Rioseco 10 Valencia 9 Girona 8 Zaragoza 7 Cabezón 6 Cadiz 5 Alcolea 4 Valdepeñas 3 Bruch 2 Dos de Mayo Madrid 1 The battle of Valdepeñas...
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the Battle of Medina de Rioseco, and was wounded at the Battle of Somosierra, and he witnessed the capture of Madrid, in 1809, and the Battle of Wagram...
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Siege of Gibraltar. At the start of the war, the Junta de Galicia promoted him to field marshal. With Blake's Army of Galicia he fought at Rioseco (July...
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Alfonso Enríquez (redirect from Alonso Enríquez y Angulo de Córdoba)
was Lord of Medina de Rioseco and Admiral of Castile. Alfonso Enriquez de Castilla was the son of Fadrique Alfonso, 25th Master of the Order of Santiago...
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Vicente Nieto (category Spanish military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
Liniers. He returned to Spain in 1808 because of the Peninsular War, and fought at the Battle of Medina de Rioseco. He returned to the Americas with the newly...
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The following tables show the sequence of events of the Peninsular War (1807–1814), including major battles, smaller actions, uprisings, sieges and other...
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Duke of Medina de Rioseco. Doña Victoria de Toledo, married her cousin Don Francisco Ponce de León, 5th Duke of Arcos. Don Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo...
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Paris 2 Elba 1 The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as a preliminary engagement to the decisive Battle of Waterloo that occurred...
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Pedro Girón y Velasco, had advanced towards Medina de Rioseco, establishing its headquarters in the town of Villabrágima, only a league away from the royal...
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Ludwik Michał Pac (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
the Chief of Staff of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières' I Corps. For example, while commanding a squadron during the Battle of Medina de Rioseco, his horse...
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Jean-Pierre-Antoine Rey (category French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières and fought at the Battle of Medina de Rioseco on 14 July 1808. Hilaire Benoît Reynaud's brigade with 3,000 men of the...
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Indecisive Battle of Lützen (1813) - Victory Battle of Caldiero (1813) - Victory Battle of the Mincio River (1814) - Victory Monogram of Eugène de Beauharnais...
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Paris 2 Elba 1 The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, June 18th, 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now...
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