Campaign in south-west France (1814)

Campaign in south-west France
Part of the Peninsular War
The Battle of Toulouse
Date 7 October 1813 – 18 April 1814[a] Location South-west France Result Armistice (17 April 1814) and the Peace of Paris (1814)
Belligerents
French Empire	United Kingdom Portugal Spain
Commanders and leaders
Jean-de-Dieu Soult Louis-Gabriel Suchet	Arthur Wellesley

Peninsular War:
Campaign in south-west France (1814)

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30miles

Bayonne

7

Toulouse

6

5

4

3

2

Bidassoa

1

  

The campaign in south-west France in late 1813 and early 1814 was the final campaign of the Peninsular War. An allied army of British, Portuguese and Spanish soldiers under the command of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington fought a string of battles against French forces under the command of Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult, from the Iberian Peninsula across the Pyrenees and into south-west France ending with the capture of Toulouse and the besieging of Bayonne.

The campaign ended when—on receiving word of the deposition of Napoleon as Emperor of the French, and the ratification of a general armistice (the Treaty of Fontainebleau, 11 April)—the opposing commanders signed a local armistice on 17 April 1814.
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