Campaign in south-west France (1814)

Campaign in south-west France
Part of the Peninsular War and the War of the Sixth Coalition

The Battle of Toulouse
Date7 October 1813 – 18 April 1814[a]
Location
South-west France
Result Armistice (17 April 1814) and the Peace of Paris (1814)
Belligerents
First French Empire French Empire United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom
Kingdom of Portugal Portugal
Spain Spain
Commanders and leaders
First French Empire Jean-de-Dieu Soult
First French Empire Louis-Gabriel Suchet		 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington
Peninsular War:
Campaign in south-west France (1814)
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Bayonne
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Battle of Bayonne at Bayonne, on 14 April 1814
Toulouse
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Battle of Toulouse (1814) at Toulouse, on 10 April 1814
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Battle of Orthez at Orthez, on 27 February 1814
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Battle of Garris at Garris, on 15 February 1814
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Battle of the Nive at River Nive, from 9 to 13 December 1813
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Battle of Nivelle at River Nivelle, on 10 November 1813
Bidassoa
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Battle of the Bidassoa at Bidassoa, on 7 October 1813

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, Marquess 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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