Battle of Fuengirola

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Battle of Fuengirola
Part of the Peninsular War
A painting of the battle by January Suchodolski
Date 15 October 1810 Location Sohail Castle, Spain 36°32′30″N 4°37′30″W / 36.54167°N 4.62500°W / 36.54167; -4.62500 Result Franco-Polish victory
Belligerents
Duchy of Warsaw  France	United Kingdom  Spain
Commanders and leaders
Franciszek Młokosiewicz	Lord Blayney (POW)
Strength
400 (Warsaw) 57 (France)	3,501 (United Kingdom) 1,000 (Spain) 2 ship of the lines 2 frigates 5 gunboats Several brigs and sloops
Casualties and losses
20 killed 100 wounded	65 killed 70 wounded 200 captured 1 gunboat sunk

Peninsular war: Siege of Cádiz

150km
100miles

Tarifa

7

Bornos

6

Zújar

5

Barrosa

4

Baza

3

Fuengirola

2

Cádiz

1

  

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The Battle of Fuengirola was a military engagement of the Peninsular War fought on 15 October 1810 between a 457-strong Franco-Polish garrison at the Sohail Castle near Fuengirola and a much larger Anglo-Spanish field force of 4,501 men led by Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney. Blayney's troops conducted an amphibious assault under the cover of an offshore artillery bombardment against the garrison of Sohail Castle, which consisted of troops from the army of the Duchy of Warsaw and the French Imperial Army.

The defenders ultimately managed to frustrate the attacking forces' attempts to capture the castle before a joint Franco-Polish assault captured Blayney and forced his men to re-embark in disarray. The British and Spanish suffered 335 men killed, wounded or captured while the Franco-Polish defenders suffered 120 casualties. Several of the Polish officers involved in the battle were subsequently awarded the Legion of Honour by Napoleon.