4 Campo Maior 3 2 Badajoz 1 The siege of Badajoz (16 March – 6 April 1812; [baðaˈxoθ]), also called the third siege of Badajoz, was an Anglo-Portuguese...
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Siege of Badajoz may refer to: Siege of Badajoz (1658) Siege of Badajoz (1705) First Siege of Badajoz (1811) Second Siege of Badajoz (1811) Siege of Badajoz...
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Thomas Barnwall Martin (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Galway constituencies (1801–1922))
with the daughter of a local chandler, Thomas left home to join the army. He served at the Siege of Badajoz (1812), Spain in 1812, where he was wounded...
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Badajoz on the southern corridor, whose taking would be a much more bloody affair. The allied campaign in Spain proceeded with the siege of Badajoz....
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upriver movement by enemy ships. During the Peninsular War, at the Siege of Badajoz (1812), a cheval de frise was used to fill a breach in the town wall,...
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several wars including the Spanish War of Succession (1705), the Peninsular War (1808–1811), the Storming of Badajoz (1812), and the Spanish Civil War (1936)...
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Independence Siege of Badajoz (1812) – Peninsular War Siege of Huajuapan de León (1812) – Mexican War of Independence Siege of the Salamanca Forts (1812) – Peninsular...
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April–June: Second Siege of Badajoz (1811) by Portuguese and British forces. 1812 - March–April: Siege of Badajoz (1812) by Portuguese and British forces...
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South Essex Regiment (redirect from Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers)
of Badajoz, 1812 (Sharpe's Company) (As part of the 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)) Battle of Salamanca, 1812 (Sharpe's Sword) Battle of Vitoria...
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9th Light Infantry Regiment (category Regiments of the First French Empire)
July 1809 and the Siege of Badajoz (1812). Battalions from the regiment also fought on the Wagram Campaign (1809), at the Battle of Leipzig (16–19 October...
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Sharpe (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
Harper. Sharpe and Harper are the heroes of the Sharpe series of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books....
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7–20 - Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812) March 16-April 6 - Siege of Badajoz (1812) March 19 - ratification of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 April 9...
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of Badajoz may refer to: Battle of Badajoz (1812), during the Peninsular War Battle of Badajoz (1936), during the Spanish Civil War Siege of Badajoz (disambiguation)...
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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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William Robert Whatton (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
wounded from the Battle of Albuera. He treated the wounded from the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), and the Siege of Badajoz (1812). He was appointed resident...
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aid his siege of Badajoz. This reduction in men, which brought the French numbers down to between 20,000–15,000, encouraged the defenders of Cádiz to...
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John Fox Burgoyne (category British Army personnel of the War of 1812)
including the Siege of Badajoz and the Battle of Vitoria. He served under Sir Edward Pakenham as chief engineer during the War of 1812. He went on to...
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The bastioned system of the Spanish city of Badajoz consists of a military fortification formed by a set of defensive walls, city gates, bridges, forts...
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Sir Richard Fletcher, 1st Baronet (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
Badajoz and Vitoria. Fletcher was twice wounded in the line of duty before being killed in action at the Siege of San Sebastian. Little is known of Richard...
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part of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's army and fought at many of the key battles including Badajoz in March 1812, Salamanca in July 1812, Vitoria...
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38°52′44″N 6°58′01″W / 38.879°N 6.967°W / 38.879; -6.967 The fourth siege of Badajoz took place from July to October 1658 during the Portuguese Restoration...
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Anthony Emmett (category People of the Peninsular War)
and thirdly, at the siege of Badajoz in 1812, when he led on the Portuguese column of the 4th division to the assault of the breach of the curtain, and was...
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factory of Frank Vickerman in West Yorkshire. March 16–April 6 – Siege of Badajoz (Peninsular War): The Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington...
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men during the Siege of Badajoz (1812). On the south side of the pedestal was a description of Picton's life in English. A Welsh version of his exploits...
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María 4 3 2 1 The siege of Valencia from 3 November 1811 to 9 January 1812, saw Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet's French Army of Aragon besiege Captain...
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Light Division (category Infantry divisions of the United Kingdom)
once again under the command of Major-General Robert Craufurd, was involved in the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (8 January 1812), where they stormed and took...
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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, at Astorga, León, Castile-León...
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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (redirect from William Carr Beresford, Viscount, Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, Duke de Elvas Beresford)
fortress-city of Badajoz. As the French forces retreated from the Lines of Torres Vedras, Beresford marched towards Badajoz, which he laid siege to. Having...
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January 1812, an Imperial French army under Jean François Leval laid siege to an Anglo-Spanish garrison led by Francisco Copons. Despite the advice of British...
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injured in the breach at Siege of Badajoz in 1812, (Sharpe's Company), but recovers to take command of the regiment after the death of Colonel Windham shortly...
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