Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

Episode of the French intervention in Spain 1823 by Hippolyte Lecomte
DateApril – November 1823
Location
Result

Spanish and French Bourbon royalist victory

Belligerents
 France
Spain Armée de la Foi
Spain Partisans of the Cortes
Commanders and leaders
Casualties and losses
France: 400 killed[1] 600 killed[1]

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").

  1. ^ a b 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