Regional1809

Battle of Alcantara

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Spain

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Alcantara (1809), part of the Napoleonic Wars. France defeated United Kingdom, Portugal.

Belligerents3

France
United Kingdom
Portugal

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1815)

Conflict graph

PART OFNapoleonic Wars

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Alcantara (1809). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-alcantara-1809 · Sources & methodology