Battle of Luchana

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|conflict=Battle of Luchana

| image= Ataque al Puente de Luchana.jpg

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|partof=First Carlist War

|date=23–24 December 1836

|place=Bilbao and vicinities, Basque Country, Spain

|result=Liberal victory

|combatant1=Carlists supporting

Infante Carlos of Spain

|combatant2=Liberals (Isabelinos or Cristinos) supporting
Isabella II of Spain and her regent mother Maria Christina

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|commander2= Baldomero Espartero

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The Battle of Luchana (Lutxana in Basque) occurred at Bilbao and its vicinities during the night of December 23, 1836 and went on until December 24, 1836.{{Cite book |last=Shubert |first=Adrian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSw4EAAAQBAJ |title=Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879 |date=2021 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4875-0860-9 |pages=4–9 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Bowen |first1=Wayne H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7zOEAAAQBAJ |title=A Military History of Modern Spain: From the Napoleonic Era to the International War on Terror |last2=Álvarez |first2=José E. |date=2007-09-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-57356-723-7 |pages=26 |language=en}} The Carlists were besieging Bilbao and controlled the water and land routes towards the city. The battle of Luchana took place in the district belonging to the parish of Deusto and the municipality of Erandio, on the banks of the Asúa River, which empties into the Nervión at the spot known as Luchana. The Carlists were defeated and the siege of Bilbao was lifted.