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Battle of Lleida | |||||||
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Part of the
Reapers' War and the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) | |||||||
![]() The battle of Lleida by Hippolyte Lecomte | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt Comte de Roches-Baritault † [1] | Marquis de Leganés | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
12,000 [2]-13,000 [3] | 22,000 [4]-25,000 [2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1,000 killed [2] | 2,000 killed [3] [2] |
The Battle of Lleida took place on 7 October 1642, during the Catalan Revolt, part of the wider Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659). A combined Franco-Catalan army under Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt defeated a larger Spanish force led by Marquis de Leganés, sent to capture the town of Lleida.
In the summer of 1642, an army commanded by Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, French military commander in Catalonia, marched into Aragon. In order to divert him, Leganés assembled troops from Tarragona and Zaragoza to retake the important city of Lleida, then held by a French garrison. [5]
La Mothe positioned his smaller army in the Llano de las Forques and defeated the Spanish army. After the victory, the French Army besieged Tortosa, but was forced to withdraw.