Battle of Tudela - End

End

Such is the development and the end of the battle of Tudela, an unequal struggle is resolved in a short time, from 1 to 3 pm, and has its peak at 2. You can blame it to Chestnut, to Lapeña to Grimarest, to rock, to Palafox.

They were forced to defend themselves. Everyone tried to avoid responsibility for the disaster. A Brown relieved him of command to give to Lapeña. He was later court-martial and acquitted. All had a part in the setback: the staff, subordinate commanders, the troops.

"In this action," writes Planell Brigadier-'was shattered Army Reserve Center, and waned in its 5 th Division, suffering then all the consequences of a hazardous retreat. "

The Spanish army lost 26 guns, lots of baggage carts, and large stores of ammunition and supplies that the government had accumulated in Tudela. According to Thiers, losses were 40 guns and 3,000 prisoners, mostly wounded.

On the fields of Tudela appeared the day after the battle more than 1,500 dead on both sides, to which, by tradition, were given burial in Mount St. Julian, near the Hill of the Hazel and Mount of Palenque, dip the current water tank. The Spanish prisoners were concentrated in the Corral de Santa Clara and then scattered in different buildings as the Convent of San Francisco was enabled to jail. The guns placed them in the Plaza de Toros (now the Jurisdictions).

Marshal Lannes, exhausted by the effort of the day and resentful of his recent injury, was ill in Tudela. His troops, on the night of his entry, surrendered to a general looting and fierce. The rapacity caught up to the upper classes of the Army, it was observed, writes Mariano Sainz, which houses many old paintings disappeared and artistic valuables unable to awaken the greed of the soldier.

Education Convent was turned into military housing. In this regard the mother Concepcion Puig writes, living at the time, it looked to many soldiers in the recreation rooms, mending their backpacks and fall of some, chalices, patens and other sacred objects.