Cannon ball impacts from the 1811 siege still visible today in the port of Tarragona.

Impacts from projectiles fired from french cannon set up near the mouth of the river Francoli at an advanced stage of the 56 day siege of Tarragona 1811. They were firing on a spanish battery here (see map below).

Wall of the old Mole

Edward Codrington, 11 may, 1811. (From a letter to his wife):

“I told Campo Verde that although the shot from the shipping reached the place where the French were working near the beach, it was imposible to hit the people in their trenches, and that it would be advisable to annoy them with shells from a battery advanced along the beach by O'Donnell on purpose to protect the mole. He said it was not within range. I said it was within half range, and upon our going to see it this evening I found he actually did not know the way to it. Have I judged wrong in saying this man was not equal to the situation?”

The french set up cannons in a captured area of the City's fortifications. The arrow marks the area under fire

Note:

Enrique O’Donnell Count of Bisbal, Capitan General of the army in Catalonia before the siege.

Edward Codrington, Commander of the Royal navy Squadron present on the Catalan coast during the war. 

Marquis de CampoVerde, Self appointed Capitan General of the army in Catalonia during the siege of Tarragona 1811.