Battle of Puente Sanpayo

Battle of Puente Sanpayo
Part of the Peninsular War
Pontevedra Battle of Puente Sanpayo (Spain)
Date 7–9 June 1809 Location Ponte Sampaio, Pontevedra, Spain 42°21′N 8°37′W / 42.35°N 8.61°W / 42.35; -8.61 Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
French Empire	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Michel Ney	Gaspar María de Nava
Strength
10,800	10,000
Casualties and losses
2,000–3,000 dead or wounded	300 dead or wounded

The Battle of Puente Sanpayo or Battle of San Payo (Galician: Ponte Sampaio) took place at Ponte Sampaio, Pontevedra, between 7–9 June 1809 during the Peninsular War. The Spanish forces commanded by Colonel Pablo Morillo defeated the French forces of Marshall Michel Ney.^[1] Ney and his forces were forced to retreat and the French offensive to re-capture the cities of Pontevedra and Vigo was a failure. The battle marked the final evacuation of Galicia by the French army and the creation of a new front.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

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• Pazos, Salustiano Portela (1964). La Guerra de Independencia en Galicia (in Spanish). Santiago de Compostela: Tipografía del Seminario.
• Glover, Michael (2001). The Peninsular War 1807-1814. ISBN 0-14-139041-7.
• Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
• Rey, J. M. Osuna (2006). Los franceses en Galicia: Historia militar de la Guerra de Independencia en Galicia 1809 (in Spanish). Fundación Barrié de la Maza.
• Catoyra, Félix Estrada (1916). Historia de los ejércitos gallegos durante la Guerra de la Independencia (in Spanish). Santiago de Compostela: Tipografía de El Eco Franciscano.
• Maldonado, Josep Muñoz (2009). Political and Military History of the War of Independence in Spain.

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• Monument to the heroes of Puente Sampayo