Campaign in south-west France (1814)
1813–1814 campaign during the Peninsular War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The campaign in south-west France in late 1813 and early 1814 was the final campaign of the Peninsular War. An allied army of British, Portuguese and Spanish soldiers under the command of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington fought a string of battles against French forces under the command of Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult, from the Iberian Peninsula across the Pyrenees and into south-west France ending with the capture of Toulouse and the besieging of Bayonne.
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The Battle of Toulouse | |||||||
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French Empire |
United Kingdom Portugal Spain | ||||||
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Jean-de-Dieu Soult Louis-Gabriel Suchet | Arthur Wellesley |
Campaign in south-west France (1814)
The campaign ended when—on receiving word of the deposition of Napoleon as Emperor of the French, and the ratification of a general armistice (the Treaty of Fontainebleau, 11 April)—the opposing commanders signed a local armistice on 17 April 1814.