2-495-236 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Battle of Talavera, Spain, 27-28 July 1809 (c1857). The British and Spanish army commanded by Wellington won an indecisive victory over the French commanded by Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, who Napoleon had installed on the Spanish throne. From England's Battles by Sea and Land, volume II, by Lieutenant Colonel William Freke Williams, published by the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1857.