CASUALTY RECORD // September 12, 1813
Battle of Ordal
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 2,000 estimated
United Kingdom
2,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Ordal was a meeting engagement in the final phase of the Peninsular War, fought as Anglo-Allied forces under Lord William Bentinck operated along the eastern coast of Spain. Suchet's corps launched a night assault against Bentinck's advance guard, inflicting approximately 2,000 casualties on the larger Anglo-Allied force of around 20,000 against Suchet's 17,000. The engagement checked the Allied advance guard and demonstrated that French forces in eastern Spain retained the capacity to mount aggressive offensive action even as the wider Peninsular campaign moved toward its conclusion.
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