Charge of the 23rd Dragoons against the French squares at Talavera, illustration from 'British Battles on Land and Sea', published by Cassell, London, c.1910byRichard Caton II Woodville
Charge of the 23rd Dragoons against the French squares at Talavera, illustration from 'British Battles on Land and Sea', published by Cassell, London, c.1910
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Charge of the 23rd Dragoons against the French squares at Talavera, illustration from 'British Battles on Land and Sea', published by Cassell, London, c.1910
The Battle of Talavera (July 27-28, 1809) was a bloody yet inconclusive battle seventy miles southwest of Madrid, Spain. Although the French army under King Joseph Bonaparte withdrew from the field, the British under Sir Arthur Wellesley (subsequently Duke of Wellington) soon withdrew from Spain;