Napoleonic map. Siege of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). Tarragona was besieged from 5 May to 29 June 1811. Troops belonging to the French Army of Aragon, commanded by General Suchet, fought against a Spanish garrison led by Lieutenant General Juan Senen de Contreras. A British naval squadron commanded by Admiral Edward Codrington harassed the French besiegers with cannon fire. The city was assaulted and occupied. The Peninsular War. Atlas de l'Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). D
Napoleonic map. Siege of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). Tarragona was besieged from 5 May to 29 June 1811. Troops belonging to the French Army of Aragon, commanded by General Suchet, fought against a Spanish garrison led by Lieutenant General Juan Senen de Contreras. A British naval squadron commanded by Admiral Edward Codrington harassed the French besiegers with cannon fire. The city was assaulted and occupied. The Peninsular War. Atlas de l'Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). Drawings by Dufour, engravings by Dyonnet. Edited in Paris, 1864.
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