In 1811, General Louis-Gabriel Suchet sought his marshal’s baton in the breach of a Spanish fortress. On the sweltering afternoon of Friday, June 28, 1811, French engineers surveyed the 10-meter- wide breach in the wall surrounding Tarragona’s Upper Town. After two months of exhausting siege work and brutal assaults, surrounded by the implacable Spanish, it …
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