Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)

Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo
	Part of Peninsular War
	; Spanish map of the battle (1868)
Date	26 April – 10 July 1810
Location	Ciudad Rodrigo, Castile and León, Spain40°36′00″N 6°32′00″W / 40.6000°N 6.5333°W
Result	French victory
Belligerents
French Empire	Kingdom of Spain
Commanders and leaders
André Masséna; Michel Ney	Andrés Pérez de Herrasti
Strength
28,000	5,500
Casualties and losses
1,500	5,500

Peninsular War: Third French invasion

220km
137miles

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Astorga

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current battle

In the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, in Salamanca, Spain, the French Marshal Michel Ney took the fortified city from Field Marshal Andrés Pérez de Herrasti on 10 July 1810 after a siege that began on 26 April. Ney's VI Corps made up part of a 65,000-strong army commanded by André Masséna, who was bent on a third French invasion of Portugal.