Editing Tarragona (section)

===Peninsular War===
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During the [[Peninsular War]], in the first [[Siege of Tarragona (1811)|siege of Tarragona]] from 5 May to 29 June 1811, [[Louis-Gabriel Suchet]]'s Army of Aragon of the [[First French Empire]] laid siege to a Spanish garrison led by Lieutenant General [[Juan de Contreras]]. A British naval squadron commanded by Admiral [[Edward Codrington]] harassed the French besiegers with cannon fire and transported large numbers of reinforcements into the city by sea. Nevertheless, Suchet's troops stormed into the defences and killed or captured almost all the defenders. It became a subprefecture centre in [[Bouches-de-l'Èbre]] department of French empire.

In the second [[Siege of Tarragona (1813)|siege of Tarragona]] (3–11 June 1813), an overwhelming Anglo-Spanish force under the command of Lieutenant general [[John Murray, 8th Baronet]] failed to wrest Tarragona from a small Franco-Italian garrison led by Brigadier general [[Antoine Marc Augustin Bertoletti]]. Murray was subsequently removed from command for his indecisive and contradictory leadership. The Anglo-Spanish forces finally captured Tarragona on 19 August.