Battle of Fuengirola

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Battle of Fuengirola
Part of the Peninsular War
Battle of Fuengirola, a painting by January Suchodolski oil on canvas, 93 x 66 cm, Polish Army Museum
Date 15 October 1810 Location Fuengirola, near Málaga, Spain 36°32′30″N 4°37′30″W / 36.54167°N 4.62500°W / 36.54167; -4.62500 Result Franco-Polish victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom Spain	Duchy of Warsaw France
Commanders and leaders
Lord Blayney (POW)	Franciszek Młokosiewicz
Strength
3,501 British 1,000 Spanish	400 Polish 57 French
Casualties and losses
65 killed 70 wounded 200 captured 5 guns captured 300 rifles & muskets captured 60,000 rounds of ammunition captured 1 gunboat captured	20 killed 100 wounded

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 (15 October 1810) was an engagement between a small Army of the Duchy of Warsaw garrison of a medieval Moorish fortress in Fuengirola against a much larger Anglo-Spanish expeditionary corps under Andrew Blayney. Blayney led an amphibious assault on Sohail Castle under heavy bombardment. The defenders, fighting with the First French Empire, were men from the 4th Regiment of the Duchy of Warsaw. Under attack from sea and on land from the British and Spanish forces from the inland, about 300 Polish troops ultimately routed the assaulting forces, inflicting heavy losses on the British 89th Regiment of Foot, among other units, and capturing Blayney. Several of the Polish officers were subsequently awarded the Legion of Honour by Napoleon.