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French and Spanish armies fighting the battle of Tudela during the War of the Iberian Peninsula

French and Spanish forces fought for the battle of Tudela during the War of the Iberian Peninsula. 33,000 Spanish soldiers and militiamen tried to besiege 30,000 French. The Spaniards who were at the command of Castaños settled on the hill of Santa Barbara to avoid positions in the area of the Ebro Valley, but did not succeed and the soldiers of Napoleon claimed 4,000 deaths and 3,000 prisoners. The struggle was so famous that the French recorded in the Triumphal Arc of Paris, on the lines of the Battle of the Baztan.