The Battle of Bussaco, 1810

Coloured aquatint by T Fielding after R Westall, No 4 in the set 'Victories of Wellington', published 20 June 1819.

Busaco (or Bussaco) was an action fought during the Peninsular War (1808-1814) on 27 September 1810. After much heavy fighting, Marshal Michel Ney and Major-General Jean Reynier's French force failed to dislodge the Anglo-Portuguese forces from the Busaco ridge where they had deployed under the command of Viscount Wellington. The French were driven off with the loss of 4,500 men killed or wounded, as against Anglo-Portuguese losses of about 1,250.