Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Castalla (Peninsular War).

Fought April 13, 1813, between 17,000 allied troops under Sir John Murray, and 15,000 French under Suchet. The French were defeated. The allies lost 600 killed and wounded; the French, according to Suchet, 800, according to Murray, 3,000, but the former figure is probably nearer to the truth.