Battle of Cervera

Overview

In the Battle of Cervera a Spanish force led by Luis Roberto de Lacy attacked a series of Imperial French garrisons belonging to the VII Corps of Marshal Jacques MacDonald. The actions were highly successful and netted nearly 1,000 enemy prisoners. The clashes occurred during the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars. The largest garrison was located at Cervera which is located about 55 kilometres (34 mi) east of Lleida, in Catalonia, Spain.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Significance

The structured record attributes this engagement to the Peninsular War in October 1811, with commanders MacDonald and Lacy and a near-total French casualty figure of 995 from a force of 1,000. However, the supplied overview describes an entirely different engagement — a medieval battle near Espinosa de Cervera between Christian counts and the Caliphate of Córdoba under Almanzor, recorded as the fifty-second victory of his career in the Dikr bilad al-Andalus. Because the source text does not correspond to the stated battle, no grounded significance for a Peninsular War engagement at Cervera in 1811 can be established from the supplied material.

Forces & casualties

Commanders (2)