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    investment of the French-occupied city of Ciudad Rodrigo by Lord Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army from 7-20 January 1812. Wellington's army, which numbered...
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    Wellington, later 1st Duke of Wellington, in 1812, after his important victory at the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo that same year, as a victory title. As all...
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    14 13 12 11 Ciudad Rodrigo 10 9 8 7 Arlabán 6 5 Albuera 4 Campo Maior 3 2 Badajoz 1    In the siege of Badajoz (16 March – 6 April 1812), also called...
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    Arizona, where they reside today. Main articles: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810) and Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812) Its position as a fortified town on the main...
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    o r r e s Fuentes de Oñoro 8 Sabugal 7 6 Lisbon 5 Bussaco 4 Almeida 3 Ciudad Rodrigo 2 Astorga 1    In the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, in Salamanca, Spain...
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    Ciudad Rodrigo 10 9 8 7 Arlabán 6 5 Albuera 4 Campo Maior 3 2 Badajoz 1    The siege of Astorga of 1812 took place between 29 June and 19 August 1812...
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    onb.ac.at. Retrieved 2024-03-13. lipscombe (2019). "The Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo 1810 & 1812" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2019...
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    out of Portugal. The Allied campaign in Spain started with the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo. Bodart 1908, p. 429. Ojala 1987, p. 497. Smith 1998, p. 365. Ojala...
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    Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo (Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, 1812) of the Kingdom of Spain with Grandeeship, and Duke of Victoria (Duque da Vitória, 1812), with the...
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    Kowno 1    The siege of Riga was a military operation during the Napoleonic Wars. The siege lasted five months from July – December 1812, during which...
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    Salamanca 8 Ciudad 7 Talavera 6 Corunna 5 Tudela 4 Bailén 3 Valencia 2 Madrid 1    At the siege of Burgos, from 19 September to 21 October 1812, the Anglo-Portuguese...
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    defeated, in fact much had been accomplished in 1812. The French had been ejected from the cities of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Seville, and Astorga, and the provinces...
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  • Prime Minister - Mariano Luis de Urquijo January 7–20 - Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812) March 16-April 6 - Siege of Badajoz (1812) March 19 - ratification of...
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    Robert Craufurd (category 1812 deaths)
    was mortally wounded storming the lesser breach in the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo on 19 January 1812 and died four days later. Like Sir John Moore, the Craufurd...
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    Peninsular War (section 1812)
    Lisbon Madrid Valencia Bailén Tudela Corunna Talavera Cádiz Albuera Ciudad Rodrigo Salamanca Burgos Tordesillas Vitoria Toulouse The Peninsular War (1807–1814)...
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    (French: Campagne de Russie), the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Оте́чественная война́ 1812 го́да, romanized: Otéchestvennaya...
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    Tarifa from 19 December 1811 to 5 January 1812, an Imperial French army under Jean François Leval laid siege to an Anglo-Spanish garrison led by Francisco...
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    Spanish naval base of Cádiz by a French army from 5 February 1810 to 24 August 1812 during the Peninsular War. Following the occupation of Seville, Cádiz became...
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    of siege artillery ensured that in the short term no great strokes of strategy could be envisaged, but it was hoped that Almeida, Ciudad Rodrigo and...
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    crossings to relieve Almeida. Fresh from the successful siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, the French army laid siege to Almeida on July 25, 1810. Brigadier-General William...
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  • partook in the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in and went to fight with Sharpe in the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo and the siege of Badajoz. He went on to fight...
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    of Basel (1795). In August 1808 he joined a Cavalry unit formed in Ciudad Rodrigo, and led a small band of lancers that skirmished with the French forces...
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    of the Army of Portugal in 1810. Masséna captured Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida after successful sieges, but suffered a first setback at the hands of the...
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    of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, the 'Keys' guarding the roads through the mountain passes into Portugal. In 1812, Wellington finally captured Ciudad Rodrigo...
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    with this marriage. Princess Amélie Auguste Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais (31 July 1812 – 26 January 1873); was the second wife of Pedro I of Brazil...
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  • (Sharpe's Escape) Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, 1812 (Sharpe's Company) (As part of the 3rd Infantry Division (United Kingdom)) Siege of Badajoz, 1812 (Sharpe's Company)...
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    abandon the Siege of Burgos and retreat. By 31 October he had abandoned Madrid too and retreated first to Salamanca then to Ciudad Rodrigo, near the Portuguese...
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    John Fox Burgoyne (category British Army personnel of the War of 1812)
    1810, the Second Siege of Badajoz in June 1811 and the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812. Promoted to brevet major on 6 February 1812, he led the storming...
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    action in the battles of Salamanca, Vitoria, Bussaco and at the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, as well as taking part in the storming of Badajoz. For his service...
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    Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811 and drove the French Army from the village. It went on to fight at the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 and scaled...
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