Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
	; Episode of the French intervention in Spain 1823 by Hippolyte Lecomte
Date	April – November 1823
Location	Spain
Result	Spanish and French Bourbon royalist victory End of the Trienio Liberal; Start of the Ominous Decade;
Belligerents
France; Armée de la Foi	Partisans of the Cortes
Commanders and leaders
Duke of Angoulême; Armand Guilleminot; Nicolas Oudinot; Gabriel Molitor; Bon de Moncey; Étienne Bordesoulle; Louis de Hohenlohe;	Rafael del Riego ; Pablo Morillo; Francisco Ballesteros; Francisco Espoz; Miguel de Álava; Count of La Bisbal;
Casualties and losses
France: 400 killed	600 killed

The "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Bourbon royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium. Despite the name, the actual number of troops was between 60,000 and 90,000.^[2]

A minor campaign, the force comprised some five army corps (the bulk of the French regular army) and was led by the Duke of Angoulême, nephew of Louis XVIII and son of future King Charles X. The French name of the conflict is l'Expédition d'Espagne ("the Expedition of Spain").

^ ^a ^b Nash, Jay Robert (1976). Darkest Hours. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781590775264.
^ Pierson, Peter. The History of Spain. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-313-36073-2

[Nash-1] Nash, Jay Robert (1976). Darkest Hours. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781590775264.

[2] Pierson, Peter. The History of Spain. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-313-36073-2

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