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Battle of Roncesvalles; Part of the Peninsular War: Image is a map of the Combat of Roncesvalles. It is copied from Sir Charles Oman's "A History of the Peninsular War: Volume VI" which was originally published in 1922. Oman died in 1946.
The Battle of Roncevaux Pass (French and English spelling, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the present border between France and Spain, after his invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
Battle Year Conflict Casualties Battle of Megiddo: 1457 BC Thutmose III's first campaign in the Levant: 16,000+ Battle of Kadesh: 1274 BC Second Syrian campaign of Ramesses II: 30,000+ Battle of Qarqar: 853 BC Assyrian conquest of Aram: 24,000+ Battle of Thymbra: 547 BC Lydian–Persian War: 100,000 [163] Battle of Marathon: 490 BC Greco ...
According to tradition, Roncesvalles is the site where this event took place in 778, and hence today the battle is called Battle of Roncesvalles. [4] There is a stone monument near the pass commemorating the area where it is traditionally held that Roland died.
The battle is said to have been fought in the valley known as Valcarlos, which is now occupied by a hamlet bearing the same name, and in the adjoining pass of Ibañeta (Roncevaux Pass). Both of these are traversed by the main road leading north from Roncesvalles to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, in the French Basque Country.
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The Battle of the Pyrenees was a large-scale offensive (the author David Chandler recognises the 'battle' as an offensive [6]) launched on 25 July 1813 by Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult from the Pyrénées region on Emperor Napoleon's order, in the hope of relieving French garrisons under siege at Pamplona and San Sebastián.
Roncesvalles is a small village in Navarre, northern Spain. Roncesvalles may also refer to: Roncevaux Pass, a mountain pass near this village, called Roncesvalles in Spanish Battle of Roncevaux Pass, fought in 778; Battle of Roncevaux Pass (824) Battle of Roncesvalles (1813) Roncesvalles, Toronto, an urban neighbourhood in Toronto, Canada