Arroyo Molinos

Arroyo Molinos, a village in Estremadura, Spain, noted as the scene of the complete discomfiture of the French forces under General Girard by Lord Hill on the 28th October 1811, who took 1500 prisoners, the whole artillery, colours, baggage, &c., with a trifling loss to himself. French historians (Thiers and others) maintain that the battle was 'undecided.'