The Battle Hostile_encounter of Salamanca ( in French and Spanish known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of Arapiles ) on 22July 1812 was a battle Hostile_encounter in which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeated Hostile_encounter Marshal Auguste Marmont 's French forces at Arapiles , south of Salamanca , Spain , during the Peninsular War Military_operation .

Marmont and his deputy commander , General Bonet , received Receiving shrapnel wounds Bodily_harm in the first few minutes of firing Use_firearm .