Talk:Battle of Bailén

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Original Text of 'After the Battle' Section

After the battle rest of french army under command of Marshals Bessieres and Moncey left Madrid. After reaching line of river Ebro they placed there new defence position. Spanish victory in Bailen gave to think the other nations of Europe that french army isn't invincible. It was a matter of austrian decision to begin new war with Napoleon. Dupont after return to Paris was sent to prison. After 1814 he got rank of ministry of army in Louis XVIII goverment. After victory of Bailen spanish junta in Sevilla establish Medalla de Bailen.

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Holy crap! I tried, I really tried to re-write this... but it's impenetrable. I give up.

[edit] Copyright issues

Trying to find a bit more info on the Battle of Bailen I came across this page: http://www.explore-dictionary.com/dictionary/B/Battle_of_Bailen.html

This wiki article looks to be quite plagiarized from the above link.

It appears to be the reverse: at the bottom of that page you can see the text This article was derived fully or in part from an article on Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Demi ^T/_C 01:27, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

Whoops, my mistake! Guess I didn't read the fine print... BDerrly 23:51, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Doesn't make sense

Castaños' army wasn't equal to Dupont's forces. <-- Considering there are no numbers for either general it is hard to say whether Castaño had a larger or smaller force than Dupont. Anyone know? bDerrly talk contr 12:15, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More work ahead

Well folks, I've put a lot of work editing this page and making it readable but it still needs a lot of work. I'm going to do some more research to make the information more substantiated. Hopefully we can get this thing up to snuff and make it a viable resource for information on the battle. bDerrly talk contr 12:26, 6 May 2005 (UTC)