First Battle of Porto

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First Battle of Porto
Part of the Peninsular War
Marshall Soult surveys the broken bridge as Oporto falls to the French on 29 March 1809. In the foreground a grenadier rescues an orphaned baby.
Date 29 March 1809[1] Location Porto, Portugal 41°9′43.71″N 8°37′19.03″W / 41.1621417°N 8.6219528°W / 41.1621417; -8.6219528 Result French victory
Belligerents
Portugal	French Empire
Commanders and leaders
Caetano José Vaz Parreiras	Jean de Dieu Soult
Strength
30,000[1]	16,000[1]
Casualties and losses
8,000–10,000 killed[2] Unknown wounded	500 killed or wounded[2]

Peninsular War: Second French invasion

100km
62miles

Sanpayo

6

Grijó

5

Porto

4

Braga

3

Villafranca

2

Chaves

1

  

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In the First Battle of Porto (29 March 1809) the French under Marshal Soult defeated the Portuguese, under General Parreiras, outside the city of Porto^[a] during the Peninsular War. Soult followed up his success by storming the city,^[3] in the course of which thousands of fleeing citizens drowned in the Porto Boat Bridge disaster.

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