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Battle of Toulouse (1814)
1814 battle during the Peninsular War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Toulouse took place on April 10, 1814, just four days after Napoleon's surrender of the French Empire to the Sixth Coalition, marking one of the final conflicts of the Napoleonic Wars. Having pushed the demoralised and disintegrating French Imperial armies out of Spain in a difficult campaign the previous autumn, the Allied British-Portuguese and Spanish army under the Duke of Wellington pursued the war into southern France in the spring of 1814.
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Part of the Peninsular War | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
42,043[1] | 49,446[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
3,236[3] | 4,558[3] |
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125miles
The city of Toulouse, the regional capital, put up a fierce resistance under the command of Marshal Soult, who defended it tenaciously. One British and two Spanish divisions were badly mauled in bloody fighting on 10 April, with Allied losses exceeding French casualties by 3,000.[4] Marshal Soult retreated from Toulouse, leaving behind 1600 wounded soldiers including three generals.
Wellington's entry on the morning of 12 April was acclaimed by a great number of French Royalists, validating Soult's earlier fears of potential fifth column elements within the city. That afternoon, the official word of Napoleon's abdication and the end of the war reached Wellington. Soult agreed to an armistice on 17 April.