On February 27, 1814, at the Battle of Orthez, an Anglo-Portuguese Army under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French under Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, near Bayonne, in southwestern France, ...

He had been spending time in the Parisian house of Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult (an art lover who had led the French forces during the invasion of southern Spain in 1807), and in those chambers he ...