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Battle of Fuengirola was one of the battles of the Peninsular War. It was fought on October 15, 1810, between a small Polish garrison of a mediæval Moorish fortress in Fuengirola and a joint Spanish-British expeditionary corps under Lord Blayney. Image File history File links Mlokosiewicz_franciszek. ...
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) (known as War of Independence in Spain and as French Invasions in Portugal) was a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the Iberian Peninsula with Spanish, Portuguese, and the British forces fighting against Napoleonic French. ...
October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ...
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1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Seaside in Fuengirola Fuengirola is a town on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain in the province of Málaga and the autonomous community of Andalusia. ...
Málaga is a port city in Andalucia, southern Spain, on the Costa del Sol coast of the Mediterranean. ...
Location Official languages Polish Established church Roman Catholic Capital Warsaw Largest City Warsaw Head of state Duke of Warsaw Area about 155,000 km² Population about 4,3 million Existed 1806–1814 The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie, Latin: Ducatus Varsoviae, French: Duche de Varsovie) was a Polish...
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) (known as War of Independence in Spain and as French Invasions in Portugal) was a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the Iberian Peninsula with Spanish, Portuguese, and the British forces fighting against Napoleonic French. ...
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The Peninsular War (1808–1814) (known as War of Independence in Spain and as French Invasions in Portugal) was a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the Iberian Peninsula with Spanish, Portuguese, and the British forces fighting against Napoleonic French. ...
October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ...
1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
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The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including the present day Spain and Portugal) and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called Moorish. Juba II king of Mauretania // Origins of the name The name derives from the old Berber (barbarian) tribe of the Mauri...
Seaside in Fuengirola Fuengirola is a town on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain in the province of Málaga and the autonomous community of Andalusia. ...
Before the Battle
The town of Fuengirola has been an important trade town since the Middle Ages. To defend it against invasion from the sea, the Moors built a stone castle on a hill between the Mediterranean and the Fuengirola River. During the Peninsular War the area of Costa del Sol was considered of secondary importance. It was seized by the French forces with little opposition and until 1810 the partisan activity in the region was close to none. That is why after suffering losses in the fights in the interior, some Polish units of the Duchy of Warsaw were sent there as a garrison and to rest in October 1810. Seaside in Fuengirola Fuengirola is a town on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain in the province of Málaga and the autonomous community of Andalusia. ...
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The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ...
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) (known as War of Independence in Spain and as French Invasions in Portugal) was a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the Iberian Peninsula with Spanish, Portuguese, and the British forces fighting against Napoleonic French. ...
The Costa del Sol is made up of the coastal towns and communities in the western part of Málaga province in the south of Spain, in the autonomous region of Andalusia. ...
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Location Official languages Polish Established church Roman Catholic Capital Warsaw Largest City Warsaw Head of state Duke of Warsaw Area about 155,000 km² Population about 4,3 million Existed 1806–1814 The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie, Latin: Ducatus Varsoviae, French: Duche de Varsovie) was a Polish...
The Castillo de Sohail was manned by more than 100 Polish soldiers from the 4th Infantry Regiment. The unit was commanded by Captain Franciszek Młokosiewicz. Similar small garrisons were placed in the nearby towns of Mijas (60 infantrymen under lieutenant Eustachy Chełmicki) and Alhaurin (200 infantrymen and 40 dragoons under major I. Bronisz). All these forces formed part of the French Corps of General Horace Sebastiani stationed in Málaga. The corps numbered some 10,000 men. It was located in Southern Andalusia to prevent the Spanish partisans from receiving arms from Gibraltar. Mijas is a town in the province of Málaga, in Andalusia, southern Spain. ...
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In the autumn of 1810 the British Major General Lord Blayney decided to lead an expeditionary corps from Gibraltar towards the port of Málaga and seize it by surprise. The beaches near the small fortress of Fuengirola seemed a perfect landing place for his forces. The Spanish partisans informed the British about the weakness of the defenders and lack of reserves. In October 1810 Blayney gathered a field force of 2/89th Regiment of Foot, a battalion of French deserters, an artillery unit, naval gun crews and a Spanish Toledo Regiment. Thus the initial British-Spanish expedition numbered c. 1700 men, excluding naval staffs and crews. The corps boarded a small fleet consisting of two frigates (HMS Topaze and HMS Sparrowhawk), five gunboats, several brigs and transport sloops. 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Málaga is a port city in Andalucia, southern Spain, on the Costa del Sol coast of the Mediterranean. ...
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Battle On October 14, 1810, the British armada reached the Cala Moral Bay, about 2 miles southwest from Fuengirola. The British disembarked, and were joined on the beach by a rather small number of Spanish partisans. Blayney led his force northeast along the shore while his fleet sailed parallel toward Fuengirola. At 2:00 pm they all arrived in front of the castle and the British general sent an emissary to convince the Polish commander to surrender. However, Młokosiewicz refused. The British ships opened fire. October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Despite numerical inferiority, the Poles held out. Sergeant Zakrzewski even managed to sink one of the British gunboats. The remaining gunboats withdrew out of the range of the two lightweight Polish guns. Under the cover of gunfire from his two frigates, Blayney attempted a frontal attack on the castle's walls. However, after Major Grant, the commander of 2/89th Regiment of Foot had been killed, Lord Blayney sounded a retreat. Overnight he landed his guns and the British engineers built two artillery emplacements near the castle, from which they planned to destroy the walls. In the meantime, the Polish garrison of Mijas under Lieut. Chełmicki, alarmed by the artillery bombardment, sneaked through the British lines and joined up with the defenders. Bronisz's garrison of Alhaurin was also alarmed and in the early morning of October 15 it marched to Mijas, where it clashed with a 450-strong Spanish-German unit sent there by Blayney and broke it completely in a bayonet charge. Mijas is a town in the province of Málaga, in Andalusia, southern Spain. ...
On the morning of October 15 the artillery bombardment became heavy and the British cannons destroyed one of the castle towers. Around 2:00 pm, HMS Rodney and a similar Spanish warship arrived at Fuengirola and brought additional 932 men of the 1/82nd Regiment. To counter the threat, Captain Młokosiewicz decided to execute a surprise attack on the enemy artillery positions. Leaving the castle guarded mostly by the wounded, he led the remaining 130 soldiers in a sally. The besiegers were taken by surprise and, despite huge numerical superiority (approximately 10:1), the Spanish regiment protecting the hill artillery redoubt started a disorganised retreat. The guns were turned away from the castle and the Polish infantrymen started shelling the British infantry. Although the artillery fire mostly missed (there were no trained artillery officers in the Polish unit), it made the regrouping of British troops harder. October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ...
Six ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Rodney, at least the last five after Admiral George Brydges Rodney. ...
After about half an hour Lord Blayney managed to reorganise his troops on the beach and ordered the assault of the artillery emplacement occupied by Polish forces. The outnumbered defenders blew up gunpowder supplies and withdrew towards the castle. However, before the British and Spanish forces could push any further, they were attacked on their left flank by the Polish garrison of Mijas that just arrived on the battlefield. Approximately 200 rested and well-equipped Poles under I. Bronisz distracted the British long enough to let the withdrawing Captain Młokosiewicz regroup his force and strike the right flank of the British line. This near-simultaneous attack of Polish units, supported by approximately 30 French cavalrymen from the 21st Dragoon Regiment, surprised the enemy infantry, which soon started to weaver. After Lord Blayney was taken prisoner by the Poles, his infantry sounded retreat and started a chaotic re-embarcation under the fire of their own captured again guns. A light dragoon from the American Revolution A dragoon is a soldier trained to fight on foot, but transport himself on horseback. ...
Aftermath The heroic defence of the castle in Fuengirola was one of few moments (Maida, Albuera) in history, in which Polish soldiers fought against the forces of Great Britain. Although in his memoirs Lord Blayney tried to downgrade the importance of the battle of Fuengirola, he himself remained in Polish and French captivity until 1814. His sabre is currently on exhibition in the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków. 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
French Navy officer sabre on the 19th Century From right to left: a carbine, a straight infantry officer sabre, a short curved infantry sabre (briquet), two bayonets. ...
Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada miasta Kraków Mayor Jacek Majchrowski Area 326,8 km² Population - city - urban - density 757,500 (2004 est. ...
See also - Nafziger, George, Wesolowski, Mariusz T. "Poles and Saxons of the Napoleonic Wars", The Emperor's Press, Chicago, Ill., 1991, pp. 104-109.
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars fought during Napoleon Bonapartes rule over France. ...
Location Official languages Polish Established church Roman Catholic Capital Warsaw Largest City Warsaw Head of state Duke of Warsaw Area about 155,000 km² Population about 4,3 million Existed 1806–1814 The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie, Latin: Ducatus Varsoviae, French: Duche de Varsovie) was a Polish...
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) (known as War of Independence in Spain and as French Invasions in Portugal) was a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the Iberian Peninsula with Spanish, Portuguese, and the British forces fighting against Napoleonic French. ...
External links - Andrew, 11th Lord of Blayney
- The Battle of Fuengirola, One Against Ten
- Portrait of Eustachy Chełmicki
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