Talk:Battle of Bailén

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After the battle rest of french army under command of Marshals Bessieres and Moncey left Madrid. After reaching line of river Ebro they placed there new defence position. Spanish victory in Bailen gave to think the other nations of Europe that french army isn't invincible. It was a matter of austrian decision to begin new war with Napoleon. Dupont after return to Paris was sent to prison. After 1814 he got rank of ministry of army in Louis XVIII goverment. After victory of Bailen spanish junta in Sevilla establish Medalla de Bailen.

Copyright issues

Trying to find a bit more info on the Battle of Bailen I came across this page: http://www.explore-dictionary.com/dictionary/B/Battle_of_Bailen.html

This wiki article looks to be quite plagiarized from the above link.

It appears to be the reverse: at the bottom of that page you can see the text This article was derived fully or in part from an article on Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Demi ^T/_C 01:27, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

Whoops, my mistake! Guess I didn't read the fine print... BDerrly 23:51, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Doesn't make sense

Castaños' army wasn't equal to Dupont's forces. <-- Considering there are no numbers for either general it is hard to say whether Castaño had a larger or smaller force than Dupont. Anyone know? bDerrly talk contr 12:15, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

More work ahead

Well folks, I've put a lot of work editing this page and making it readable but it still needs a lot of work. I'm going to do some more research to make the information more substantiated. Hopefully we can get this thing up to snuff and make it a viable resource for information on the battle. bDerrly talk contr 12:26, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Repatriation

Dupont and his soldiers were transported on English ships to Rochefort harbour because the Spanish junta in Seville didn't recognise the pact under which they were sent to Cadiz. The part about the junta is correct, bu it lacks inf o that he british admiral collingwood also refused to bing them to france without allowance of his government.--Tresckow 20:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering the same. From articles in other languages I've read (French, German, Spanish) I had the impression that the capitulation explicitly stated that all French soldiers should be free and allowed to return to France. And that this convention was broken due to British demands? If that is true, I think this really ought to be mentioned and cleared up. 217.233.109.208 (talk) 19:52, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

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strange grammar

"However, his messengers were all intercepted and killed and a French division under General Dominique Vedel, dispatched by Dupont to clear the road to Madrid, became separated from the main body."

This doesn't seem to make sense. Were the messengers separated from the main body? 2A01:C22:A542:A00:F43C:5EDD:84CB:3AC9 (talk) 06:47, 21 May 2024 (UTC)