Battle of Fuengirola
| Battle of Fuengirola | |||||||
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| Part of the Peninsular War | |||||||
A painting of the battle by January Suchodolski | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Duchy of Warsaw France |
United Kingdom Spain | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Franciszek Młokosiewicz | Lord Blayney (POW) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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400 (Warsaw) 57 (France) |
3,501 (United Kingdom) 1,000 (Spain) 2 ships of the line 2 frigates 5 gunboats Several brigs and sloops | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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20 killed 100 wounded |
65 killed 70 wounded 200 captured 1 gunboat sunk | ||||||
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.