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Lying on a main invasion route from Ciudad Rodrigo to Lisbon, the small fortress was invested by a 65,000-man army under Marshal André Masséna in the third French invasion of Portugal. The previous day the French forces had pushed back the British Portuguese army at the Battle of the Côa. The 50,000-man British-Portuguese army of General Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington now held the far bank of the Coa. However, the rivers banks were steep, with only two bridges, and the French 6th Corps guarded the crossings, so the British were unable to retake the crossings to relieve Almeida.

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  • Siege of Almeida (1810)
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  • Lying on a main invasion route from Ciudad Rodrigo to Lisbon, the small fortress was invested by a 65,000-man army under Marshal André Masséna in the third French invasion of Portugal. The previous day the French forces had pushed back the British Portuguese army at the Battle of the Côa. The 50,000-man British-Portuguese army of General Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington now held the far bank of the Coa. However, the rivers banks were steep, with only two bridges, and the French 6th Corps guarded the crossings, so the British were unable to retake the crossings to relieve Almeida.
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Strength
  • 5000(xsd:integer)
  • 16000(xsd:integer)
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dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
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Date
  • --07-25
Commander
  • Marshal Michel Ney
  • Brig-Gen William Cox
Caption
  • Almeida's location in Portugal
Casualties
  • 58(xsd:integer)
  • 600(xsd:integer)
Result
  • French victory
combatant
  • Portugal
  • United Kingdom
  • French Empire
Place
Conflict
  • Siege of Almeida 1810
abstract
  • Lying on a main invasion route from Ciudad Rodrigo to Lisbon, the small fortress was invested by a 65,000-man army under Marshal André Masséna in the third French invasion of Portugal. The previous day the French forces had pushed back the British Portuguese army at the Battle of the Côa. The 50,000-man British-Portuguese army of General Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington now held the far bank of the Coa. However, the rivers banks were steep, with only two bridges, and the French 6th Corps guarded the crossings, so the British were unable to retake the crossings to relieve Almeida.
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