Battle of Valls

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Battle of Valls

Date	25 February 1809
Location	Valls, Spain
Result	French victory

Belligerents

French Empire

Spain

Commanders

Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr

Theodor von Reding †

Strength

13,350

10,540 infantry,
700 cavalry,
8 guns^[1]

Casualties and losses

1,000 killed or wounded

1,400 killed or wounded,
1,600 captured

v • d • e Peninsular War Aragón and Catalonia, 1809–1814

Valls – Gerona – Alcañiz – María – Vich – Villafranca – Lerida – Tortosa – Valls – 1st Tarragona – Saguntum – Valencia – 2nd Tarragona

The Battle of Valls was fought on 25 February 1809, during the Peninsular War between a French force under Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr and a Spanish force under General Reding. Fought near the town of Valls in Catalonia Spain, the battle ended in a French victory. The Spanish commander, General Reding, was fatally wounded during a cavalry charge against French cavalry.

[edit] Notes

^ Gates, p. 69

[edit] References

Chandler, David G. The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 0-02-523660-1
Gates, David. The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War. Da Capo Press 2001. ISBN 0-306-81083-2
Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill Books, 1998.