✦ History

Part of Peninsular War

Battle of Corunna

January 16, 1809 · Battle of Corunna

John Moore's army held off Soult so it could embark at Corunna; Moore was killed.

On the map Contemporaries

French Empire and allies

Coalition

France
United Kingdom
Jean-de-Dieu Soult military commander Armand Lebrun de La Houssaye military commander Julien Augustin Joseph Mermet military commander Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge military commander
John Moore military commander Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet military commander John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun military commander Alexander Mackenzie Fraser military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
20,600c. 20,000
Casualties
600–700
Captured
200–300c. 100
Guns
20
Strength
c. 15,000
Casualties
800–900c. 1,000
Captured
c. 100
Missing
300
Guns
9–12
Guns lost
c. 4

Units

Moore's army (1808–1809)