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Battle of Orthez

Index Battle of Orthez

The Battle of Orthez (27 February 1814) saw the Anglo-Portuguese Army under Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington attack an Imperial French army led by Marshal Nicolas Soult in southern France. [1]

120 relations: Adour, Aire-sur-l'Adour, Andrew Hay (British Army officer), Anglo-Portuguese Army, Anne-François-Charles Trelliard, Aran (river), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Battle of Bayonne, Battle of Garris, Battle of Nivelle, Battle of the Nive, Battle of Toulouse (1814), Bayonne, Bertrand Clausel, Bidache, Bidouze, Bonloc, Bordeaux, Campaign in north-east France (1814), Canister shot, Carlos Frederico Lecor, Viscount of Laguna, Charles, Count Alten, Congreve rocket, Dax, Landes, Denis Dighton, Edward Pakenham, Eloi Charlemagne Taupin, Eugène-Casimir Villatte, First French Empire, François Léon Ormancey, France, Garonne, Gave d'Oloron, Gave de Pau, Hagetmau, Hélette, Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1771), Henry Fane (British Army officer), Honoré Charles Reille, Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac, Jean François Leval, Jean Isidore Harispe, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean-Pierre Maransin, John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, John Milley Doyle, ..., John Wilson (governor), Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, King's German Legion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Kingdom of Portugal, Lahontan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Light Division (United Kingdom), Lord Edward Somerset, Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé, Louis Tirlet, Lowry Cole, Luy de Béarn, Manley Power, Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer, Maubourguet, Maximilien Sébastien Foy, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Napoleon, National Guard (France), Navarrenx, Nive, Orthez, Pablo Morillo, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Peninsular War, Peyrehorade, Pierre Benoît Soult, Pierre François Xavier Boyer, Plaisance, Gers, Port-de-Lanne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own), Robert Ross (British Army officer), Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Saint-Boès, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Saint-Sever, Saison (river), Sallespisse, Sauveterre-de-Béarn, Shrapnel shell, Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet, Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet, Spain, Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, Thomas Bradford, Thomas Brisbane, Thomas Picton, Toulouse, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Viellenave-de-Navarrenx, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, William Stewart (British Army officer, born 1774), 1st Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 3rd Division (United Kingdom), 42nd Regiment of Foot, 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot, 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot, 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot, 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot, 5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 6th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 7th Queen's Own Hussars, 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers). Expand index (70 more) »

Adour

The Adour (Aturri, Ador) is a river in southwestern France.

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Aire-sur-l'Adour

Aire-sur-l'Adour is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Andrew Hay (British Army officer)

Major General Andrew Hay (1762 – 14 April 1814) was a British Army officer who served in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

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Anglo-Portuguese Army

The Anglo-Portuguese Army was the combined British and Portuguese army that participated in the Peninsular War, under the command of Arthur Wellesley.

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Anne-François-Charles Trelliard

Anne-François-Charles Trelliard or Treillard or Treilhard, born 7 February 1764 – died 14 May 1832, joined the cavalry of the French Royal Army as a cadet gentleman in 1780.

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Aran (river)

The Aran, from Basque Harana, is a left tributary of the Adour, in the French Basque Country, in Aquitaine, Southwest France.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as Prime Minister.

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Battle of Bayonne

The Battle of Bayonne of 14 April 1814 was a sortie by General Thouvenot's French garrison of Bayonne during the siege of that city conducted by Allied forces under Lieutenant General John Hope.

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Battle of Garris

The Battle of Garris (Basque Garrüze) or Battle of Saint-Palais (February 15, 1814) saw an Allied force under the direct command of General Arthur Wellesley, Marquess Wellington attack General of Division Jean Harispe's French division.

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Battle of Nivelle

The Battle of Nivelle (10 November 1813) took place in front of the River Nivelle near the end of the Peninsular War (1808–1814).

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Battle of the Nive

The Battles of the Nive (9–13 December 1813) were fought towards the end of the Peninsular War.

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Battle of Toulouse (1814)

The Battle of Toulouse (10 April 1814) was one of the final battles of the Napoleonic Wars, four days after Napoleon's surrender of the French Empire to the nations of the Sixth Coalition.

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Bayonne

Bayonne (Gascon: Baiona; Baiona; Bayona) is a city and commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

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Bertrand Clausel

Bertrand, comte Clausel (or Clauzel) (12 December 177221 April 1842) was a marshal of France.

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Bidache

Bidache is a town and commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of south western France.

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Bidouze

The Bidouze, is a left tributary of the Adour, in the French Basque Country (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in the Southwest of France.

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Bonloc

Bonloc (Basque Lekuine) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southwestern France.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Campaign in north-east France (1814)

The 1814 campaign in north-east France was Napoleon's final campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition.

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Canister shot

Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel ammunition used in cannons.

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Carlos Frederico Lecor, Viscount of Laguna

Carlos Frederico Lecor (October 6, 1764 – August 2, 1836) was a Portuguese general and politician.

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Charles, Count Alten

Field Marshal Sir Charles (Carl August von) Alten (21 October 1764 – 20 April 1840), Hanoverian and British soldier, son of Baron Alten, a member of an old Hanoverian family, entered the service of the elector as a page at the age of twelve.

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Congreve rocket

The Congreve rocket was a British military weapon designed and developed by Sir William Congreve in 1804, based directly on Mysorean rockets.

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Dax, Landes

Dax (Dacs in Occitan) is a commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France, sub-prefecture of the Landes department.

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Denis Dighton

Denis Dighton (1792 – 8 August 1827) was an English painter, best known for his military portraits and battle scenes.

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Edward Pakenham

The Honourable Sir Edward Michael Pakenham GCB (pro. pack-en-um) (19 March 1778 – 8 January 1815), was an Anglo-Irish army officer and politician.

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Eloi Charlemagne Taupin

Eloi Charlemagne Taupin (17 August 1767 – 10 April 1814) became a French soldier before the French Revolution and was killed in 1814 leading his division in battle against the British and the Spanish in southern France.

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Eugène-Casimir Villatte

Eugène-Casimir Villatte, Comte d'Oultremont (14 April 1770 – 14 May 1834) fought in the French army during the Wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

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First French Empire

The First French Empire (Empire Français) was the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte of France and the dominant power in much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

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François Léon Ormancey

François Léon Ormancey was a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Garonne

The Garonne (Garonne,; in Occitan, Catalan, and Spanish: Garona; Garumna or Garunna) is a river in southwest France and northern Spain, with a length of.

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Gave d'Oloron

The Gave d'Oloron is a river of south-western France near the border with Spain.

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Gave de Pau

The Gave de Pau is a river of south-western France.

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Hagetmau

Hagetmau is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Hélette

Hélette is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1771)

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton (9 March 1771 – 11 December 1829) was a British Army officer and a general officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Henry Fane (British Army officer)

General Sir Henry Fane (26 November 177824 March 1840) commanded brigades under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington during several battles during the Peninsular War, and served both as a member of Parliament and Commander-in-Chief of India.

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Honoré Charles Reille

Honoré Charles Michel Joseph Reille (1 September 1775 – 4 March 1860) was a Marshal of France, born in Antibes.

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Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian

Lieutenant General Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian (28 July 177520 August 1842), known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt, from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader from the Vivian family.

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Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac

Jean Barthélemy Claude Toussaint Darmagnac (1 November 1766 – 12 December 1855) became a French division commander during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Jean François Leval

Jean François Leval (18 April 1762 – 7 August 1834) was promoted to general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and led a division in a number of battles during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Jean Isidore Harispe

Jean Isidore Harispe, 1st Comte Harispe (7 December 1768 – 26 May 1855) was a distinguished French soldier of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as of the following period.

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Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon

Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (29 July 176525 January 1844) was a marshal of France and a soldier in Napoleon's Army.

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Jean-de-Dieu Soult

Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia, (29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of the Empire in 1804 and often called Marshal Soult.

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Jean-Pierre Maransin

Jean-Pierre Maransin (20 March 1770 in Lourdes – 15 May 1828 in Paris) was a Général de Division of the First French Empire who saw action during the Peninsular War.

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John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton

Field Marshal John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton (16 February 1778 – 17 April 1863) was a British Army officer and Colonial Governor.

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John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun

General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun PC KB FRSE (17 August 1765 – 27 August 1823), known as the Honourable John Hope from 1781 to 1814 and as the Lord Niddry from 1814 to 1816, was a Scottish politician and British Army officer.

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John Keane, 1st Baron Keane

Lieutenant General John Keane, 1st Baron Keane (6 February 1781 – 24 August 1844) was an Irish soldier in the British Army.

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John Milley Doyle

Sir John Milley Doyle KCB (1781 – 9 August 1856) was an Anglo-Irish soldier who fought in the Peninsular War and in the War of the Two Brothers.

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John Wilson (governor)

General Sir John Wilson (1780–1856) was a British Army officer who served in the Peninsular War, and was acting Governor of British Ceylon in 1831.

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Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham

Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, (29 November 1767 – 13 February 1845) was a British peer and soldier.

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King's German Legion

The King's German Legion (KGL) was a British Army unit of mostly expatriate German personnel during the period 1803–16.

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King's Royal Rifle Corps

The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment (also known as the Royal Americans) in the Seven Years' War and for Loyalist service in the American Revolutionary War.

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Kingdom of Portugal

The Kingdom of Portugal (Regnum Portugalliae, Reino de Portugal) was a monarchy on the Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of modern Portugal.

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Lahontan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Lahontan is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Light Division (United Kingdom)

The Light Division was a light infantry division of the British Army.

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Lord Edward Somerset

General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset (19 December 1776 – 1 September 1842) was a British soldier who fought during the Peninsular War and the War of the Seventh Coalition.

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Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé

Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé (28 August 1764 – 9 April 1834) became a French general during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Louis Tirlet

Louis Tirlet (14 March 1771, Moiremont - 29 November 1841, Fontaine-en-Dormois) was a French général de division and artillery specialist during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Lowry Cole

Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, GCB (1 May 1772 – 4 October 1842), styled The Honourable from birth, was an Irish British Army general and politician.

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Luy de Béarn

The Luy de Béarn is a left tributary of the Luy, in the Southwest of France.

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Manley Power

Lieutenant General Sir Manley Power, KCB, ComTE (1773 – 7 July 1826) was a British military leader who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.

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Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer

General Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer, GCB (24 May 1775 – 23 February 1850) was a British military officer and colonial administrator.

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Maubourguet

Maubourguet is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.

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Maximilien Sébastien Foy

Maximilien Sébastien Foy (3 February 1775 – 28 November 1825) was a French military leader, statesman and writer.

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Miguel Ricardo de Álava

Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivel KCB, OCIII, OSH, KOS, MWO (7 July 1770 – 14 July 1843) was a Spanish General and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Spain in 1835.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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National Guard (France)

The National Guard (la Garde nationale) is a French gendarmerie that existed from 1789 to 1872, including a period of official dissolution from 1827 to 1830, re-founded in 2016.

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Navarrenx

Navarrenx is a commune in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (Béarn) and the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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Nive

The Nive (Errobi, Niva) is a French river that flows through the French Basque Country.

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Orthez

Orthez (Gascon Ortès) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

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Pablo Morillo

Pablo Morillo y Morillo, Count of Cartagena and Marquess of La Puerta, a.k.a. El Pacificador (The Pacifier) (5 May 1775 in Fuentesecas, Zamora, Spain – 27 July 1837 in Barèges, France) was a Spanish general.

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Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Pau is a commune on the northern edge of the Pyrenees, and capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Département in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

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Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire (as well as the allied powers of the Spanish Empire), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal, for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Peyrehorade

Peyrehorade is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Pierre Benoît Soult

Pierre Benoît Soult (19 July 1770 – 7 May 1843) joined the French royal army before the French Revolution.

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Pierre François Xavier Boyer

Pierre François Xavier Boyer (7 September 1772 – 11 July 1851) became a French division commander during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Plaisance, Gers

Plaisance (Gascon: Plasença) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

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Port-de-Lanne

Port-de-Lanne is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Pyrénées-Atlantiques (Gascon: Pirenèus-Atlantics; Pirinio Atlantiarrak or Pirinio Atlantikoak) is a department in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in southwestern France.

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Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793.

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Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)

The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers.

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Robert Ross (British Army officer)

Major-General Robert Ross (176612 September 1814) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army who served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.

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Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill

General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a trusted brigade, division and corps commander under the command of the Duke of Wellington.

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Royal Warwickshire Regiment

The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, previously titled the 6th Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years.

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Saint-Boès

Saint-Boès is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (literally "Saint John Foot of Pass"; Donibane Garazi; San Juan Pie de Puerto) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France close to Ostabat in the Pyrenean foothills.

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Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Saint-Palais is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Saint-Sever

Saint-Sever is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Saison (river)

The Saison or Uhaitz Handia, is a left tributary of the Gave d'Oloron river in the French Basque Country, (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Southwest of France.

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Sallespisse

Sallespisse is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Sauveterre-de-Béarn

Sauveterre-de-Béarn is a pretty medieval village perched above the Gave d'Oloron and facing the Pyrennes in south-western France.

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Shrapnel shell

Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

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Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet

General Sir George Townshend Walker, 1st Baronet, GCB (25 May 1764 – 14 November 1842) was a British Army officer.

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Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet

General Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet, (13 August 1772 – 1847) was a British officer from the Anson family.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere

Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician.

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Thomas Bradford

Lieutenant-general Sir Thomas Bradford (1 December 1777 – 28 November 1853) was a British Army officer.

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Thomas Brisbane

Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer.

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Thomas Picton

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton (24 August 175818 June 1815), a Welsh officer of the British Army, fought in a number of campaigns for Britain in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa, Tolosa) is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Viellenave-de-Navarrenx

Viellenave-de-Navarrenx is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, (2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician.

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William Stewart (British Army officer, born 1774)

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42nd Regiment of Foot

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45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot

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51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot

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52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot

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5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

The 5th Infantry Division was a regular army infantry division of the British Army.

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6th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

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7th Queen's Own Hussars

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Redirects here:

Battle of Orthes, Battle of orthez.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orthez

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