Battle of Vitoria

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the Peninsular War. Result: Key victory in the British campaign to drive the French out of Spain.

On June 21, 1813, Arthur Wellesley, duke of Wellington, achieved the greatest success of his career by shattering a French army and pushing its remnants back across the Pyrenees into France. Wellington rapidly advanced four hundred miles in forty days and carried out a series of maneuvers to prevent superior French forces in central Spain from concentrating against him. Hampered by an immense baggage train filled...

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