eleven in the morning
After the utter bad faith and cowardice shown by the Spanish , the great commander was determined never again to trust in their promises , or to undertake any movement dependent for success upon their co-operation . The Junta then declared that the Spaniards would alone and unaided sweep the French beyond the Pyrenees , and a Spanish army of 45,000 infantry , 7000 cavalry , and 60 guns advanced in November against Madrid . It was met by a French army of 24,000 infantry , 5000 cavalry , and 50 guns . The battle began at eleven in the morning , and by three the French , with a loss of only 1700 killed and wounded , had utterly routed the Spanish , with a loss of 5000 killed and wounded , 45 guns , and 26,000 prisoners ! After this signal and disgraceful defeat , Lord Wellington -- for he had now been raised to the peerage -- felt that nothing whatever could be done at present in Spain , and so fell back into Portugal , where for many months he occupied himself in preparing to meet the storm which would , he knew , fall ere long upon that country . The Portuguese authorities were as incapable , as untrustworthy , and as intractable as were those of Spain ; but here , happily , Lord Wellington had more power . England was paying large subsidies towards keeping up the Portuguese army , which was commanded by Lord Beresford , having under him many British officers .