A preoccupation with evacuating spoils meant that the winner of this battle captured 152 artillery pieces--though he characteristically complained "We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers" after his own troops looted rather than pursued the retreating enemy.
The Arnolfini Wedding portrait was looted in the retreat from this battle, having earlier been stolen by the loser as his regime collapsed in the country where this battle took place. A preoccupation with evacuating spoils meant that the winner of this battle captured 152 artillery pieces--though he characteristically complained "We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers" after his own troops looted rather than pursued the retreating enemy. The strategic aim of this battle was to cut off the retreat available to forces that had taken refuge in Burgos, which this battle's winning commander had tried and failed to capture the previous year, and a key element of the fighting prevented a withdrawal to Bilbao. For 10 points, name this decisive 1813 battle of the Peninsular War, celebrated by Beethoven's Battle Symphony, in which Joseph Bonaparte was defeated by the then-Marquess of Wellington just outside a city in the Basque country.
The Arnolfini Wedding portrait was looted in the retreat from this battle, having earlier been stolen by the loser as his regime collapsed in the country where this battle took place.
Battle of {Vitoria}