Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
Episode of the French intervention in Spain 1823 by Hippolyte Lecomte
Date April – November 1823 Location Spain Result Spanish and French Bourbon royalist victory End of the Trienio Liberal Start of the Ominous Decade
Belligerents
France Armée de la Foi	Partisans of the Cortes
Commanders and leaders
Duke of Angoulême Armand Guilleminot Nicolas Charles Oudinot Gabriel Molitor Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey Étienne Bordesoulle Louis de Hohenlohe	Rafael del Riego   Pablo Morillo Francisco Ballesteros Francisco Espoz Miguel de Álava Count of La Bisbal
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").