"1809 Campaign in Spain: Battle of Navalmoral" Topic

"After Wellesley's defeat at Toledo he has begun a retreat back to Portugal. But the campaign is far from over. While the chances of the Allies taking Madrid look gone, they can still save a par result by Wellesley getting his army back to Portugal. Soult has moved south from Old Castile in an attempt to cut his line of retreat at the town of Navalmoral, but after Cuesta's defeat at Miajadras a few weeks ago he rallied his forces, received reinforcements & moved north. Cuesta was too late to join Wellesley in the push for Madrid, but he fortuitously arrived at Navalmoral a day before Soult. With reinforcements from Andulusia Cuesta's army has been restored almost back to the strength it had when it was defeated by Victor at Miajadras, except that it lost most of its artillery at the battle & it has not been replaced. However, Soult's corps is significantly smaller than Victor's was at Miajadras because he detached 2 brigades of infantry & sent them to join Joseph. This may well have saved Madrid, but it has left Soult's corps undermanned…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Lovely work on this excellent setting.

GBS

Glad you like it my friend!. (smile)

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Armand