Battle of Foz de Arouce

Battle of Foz de Arouce
	Part of the Peninsular War
	; A monument of the 3rd French Invasion in Foz de Arouce
Date	15 March 1811
Location	Foz de Arouce, Lousã, Portugal
Result	Retreat of French forces
Belligerents
United Kingdom; Portugal	French Empire
Commanders and leaders
Arthur Wellesley	Michel Ney
Strength
8,000	7,000
Casualties and losses
71 killed and wounded	250 killed, wounded and captured

The Battle of Foz de Arouce was an engagement of the Peninsular War which took place on 15 March 1811 between Anglo-Portuguese forces under Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) and French troops under the command of Marshal Michel Ney.^[1]

References[]

↑ Rickard, J. (10 April 2008). "Combat of Foz de Arouce, 15 March 1811". History of War. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/combat_foz_de_arouce.html. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

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[historyofwar-1] Rickard, J. (10 April 2008). "Combat of Foz de Arouce, 15 March 1811". History of War. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/combat_foz_de_arouce.html. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

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