The French army under Marshal Soult is…
November 1813 CE
Soult's lines stretch from the shores of the Atlantic on the French right flank to the snow-covered pass of Roncesvalles on the left, a perimeter of about twenty miles.
With only sixty thousand men, Soult is stretched to an almost impossible point.
This also means that he cannot hold troops back as reserves, a factor that may have turned the tide of the battle.
As Soult moves back to his base at Bayonne, his position strengthens but he is not quick enough and Wellington, with his Peninsular army of eighty thousand, catches up to him on November 10.
By two o'clock, Soult is in retreat and the British are in a strong offensive position.
Soult has lost four thousand three hundred and fifty-one men to Wellington's twenty-four hundred and fifty.
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