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After this action, French infantry captured the Trocadero village by a flank attack. After this last action, 1700 Spanish soldiers were captured by the French. Cádiz itself held out for three weeks despite bombardments, but was forced to surrender on 23 September 1823 and King Ferdinand was released and handed over to the French.
The siege of Pamplona (French: siège de Pampelune, Spanish: asedio de Pamplona) took place in 1823 during the French invasion of Spain. The city of Pamplona in Navarre was besieged by the French Army and successfully taken. It was one of the more notable actions of the campaign along with the Battle of Trocadero.
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 ...
April 7 - French troops enter Spain mostly unopposed [2] May 24 - French Troops take Madrid [2] August 31 - Spanish liberal revolutionaries suffer a major defeat against the French at the Battle of Trocadero [3] September 23 - Cadiz falls to the French, ending the liberal revolution and restoring Ferdinand VII to the throne [3]
23 May - The rebel Spanish government withdraws from Madrid to Seville following French attacks. 31 August - Battle of Trocadero: French infantry capture the fort of Trocadero and turn its guns on Cádiz. 30 September - Cádiz surrenders to the French and Ferdinand VII of Spain is restored to his throne as absolute monarch.
The invasion of Spain was decided by French King Louis XVIII and his government — especially after François-René de Chateaubriand took charge of foreign policy on December 28, 1822, with the goal of restoring France's status as a great military power [170] — with more or less explicit support or neutrality from the other powers of the ...
On April 7, 1823, the «One Hundred Thousand Sons of San Luis» began to cross the Spanish border. There were between 80,000 and 90,000 men—with 22,000 horses and 108 cannons—, [47] which at the end of the campaign would total 120,000, part of which had already participated in the previous French invasion of 1808, with Napoleon). [49]
It ended in 1823 when, with the approval of the crowned heads of Europe, a French army invaded Spain and reinstated the King's absolute power. This invasion is known in France as the "Spanish Expedition" (expédition d’Espagne) and in Spain as "The Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis".