MAP PLAN BATTLE OF OCANA SPAIN FRENCH SPANISH ARMY 1809

BATTLE
 OF
OCANA
19 NOVEMBER 1809

Showing the positions of the French and Spanish cavalry, infantry and artillery

Following Talavera and the British withdrawal to Portugal, Spain’s General Juan Carlos Areizaga concentrated an army of some 50,000 men to defend Southern Spain. 
Despite his sizeable force, Areizaga made the mistake of staying too long in one place and allowed France’s Marshal Soult to concentrate his available forces – some 29,000 men – and make an attempt to bring the Spaniards to battle.
Realising his enemy’s intentions, Areizaga quickly retreated but was caught at Ocana.
Soult’s cavalry decided the battle and the centre of the Spanish army were decisively crushed.
Areizaga lost 4000 casualties and a further 15,000 men captured while Soult’s army suffered some 2,000 killed and wounded.

 Original antique steel plate engraving published
in 1848 with original hand colour

This is one of a series maps plans battles drawn up by Alexander Keith Johnston, geographer at Edinburgh to Queen Victoria, and published as an atlas to accompany Sir Archibald Alison’s Monumental History of Europe.

Paper size is 9 by 7¼ inches.
Very slight foxing [see image]

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