In 1811, the French again took the offensive in the peninsula.
Soult moved to Badajoz and Massena advanced to relieve Almeida
which Wellington had invested. At Fuentes de Onoro Massena and
Wellington's armies clashed in a hard-fought contest. The attacks
of the French cavalry were thwarted by the stalwart resistance of
the British infantry in square. Wellington lost 1800 men, Massna
2700 but the French failed to break Wellington's siege of Almeida
and were forced to withdraw. Massena was relieved of his command in
disgrace to be relieved by Marshal Marmont. This book features the
full story of the construction of the lines of Torres Vedras, the
most massive undertakings of military engineering in the whole of
the Napoleonic wars.
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