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La Batalla del Puerto de Baños (1809)

Baños de Montemayor, Valle del Ambroz, Cáceres

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La Batalla del Puerto de Baños (1809)

Historical milestone · Baños de Montemayor, Valle del Ambroz, Cáceres

Image of Baños de Montemayor, not of the place itself.

On 12 August 1809, during the Peninsular War, about 4,000 British soldiers under General Robert Thomas Wilson fought the 12,000 men of French Marshal Michel Ney at the Puerto de Baños pass.

12 de agosto de 1809

Photo: Vetonis (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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