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Ahiri 1:
Ọgụ̀ ǹkè Albuera (16 Ọnwaìseọnwaìse 1811) bụ̀rụ̀ ọgụ̀ mere m̀gbè agha ọkàraàgwà. Ụsụ aghaỤsụagha gwakọtara ndị Britain nà Spain mà ndị Portugual lụsụ̀rụ̀ ndị òtù France ǹke Armée du Midi (òtùagha ǹke nledà) nà ogbè ntàkịrị ǹkè ndị Spain ha kpọ̀ Albuera, ebe rutụrụ km 20 (mi 12) si nà nledà ebe ọgwaìga ebe ndị nlụ̀sụduru dị nà Badajoz ime Spain.
 
FromSite Octobernà ọnwaìri 1810 Marshalụsụagha Masséna'sdiọ̀gbọagha ArmyMasséna ofǹke Portugal had been tied down in an increasingly hopeless stand-off against Wellington's Allied forces, safely entrenched in and behind the Lines of Torres Vedras. Acting on Napoleon's orders, in early 1811 Marshal Soult led a French expedition from Andalusia into Extremadura in a bid to draw Allied forces away from the Lines and ease Masséna's plight. Napoleon's information was outdated and Soult's intervention came too late; starving and understrength, Masséna's army was already withdrawing to Spain. Soult was able to capture the strategically important fortress at Badajoz on the border between Spain and Portugal[12] from the Spanish, but was forced to return to Andalusia following Marshal Victor's defeat in March at the Battle of Barrosa. However, Soult left Badajoz strongly garrisoned. In April, following news of Masséna's complete withdrawal from Portugal, Wellington sent a powerful Anglo-Portuguese corps commanded by Sir William Beresford to retake the border town. The Allies drove most of the French from the surrounding area and began the Siege of Badajoz.
 
Soult rapidly gathered a new army from the French forces in Andalusia and, joining with the troops retreating before Beresford, he marched to relieve the siege. With intelligence of another approaching force—a Spanish army under Gen. Joaquín Blake—he planned to turn Beresford's flank and interpose his army between the two. However, Soult was again acting on outdated information; unknown to the Marshal, the Spaniards had already linked up with the Anglo-Portuguese corps, and his 24,000 troops now faced a combined Allied army 35,000 strong.