Battle of Truillas

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Battle of Truillas
Part of the
Pyrénées Orientales, France
Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
France
Spain
Commanders and leaders France Luc Siméon Dagobert Spain Antonio RicardosStrength 22,000[1] 17,000[1]Casualties and losses 4,500, 10 guns[1] 2,000[1]
Battle of Truillas is located in Europe
Battle of Truillas
Location within Europe

The Battle of Truillas (22 September 1793) saw the

Pyrénées Orientales during the War of the Pyrenees
.

Background

Since invading French

Jerónimo Girón-Moctezuma, Marquis de las Amarilas at Peyrestortes and Lieutenant General Juan de Courten at Le Vernet. The resulting Battle of Peyrestortes on 17 September was an important French victory. The badly shaken Spanish army regrouped near Trouillas.[3]

The day after

Representative-on-mission Claude Fabre, Dagobert decided to attack Ricardos in his camp at Trouillas.[4]

Battle

War of the Pyrenees, Eastern Pyrenees

Trouillas nestles in a plain on the Canterrane stream at an altitude of about 100 meters. Mas Deu, an establishment founded by the

Demi-Brigades, as well as the National Guards of Gers and Gard.[1]

Dagobert preferred to envelop the Spanish position from the west, but Fabre and the other generals persuaded him to make a frontal attack. So he sent

Luis Firmín de Carvajal, Conde de la Unión to hold Thuir. Dagobert's attack pushed back the Spanish center and forced its way into the main camp at Trouillas. Meanwhile, Goguet ran into a concentration of Spanish infantry and artillery on the west flank at Thuir and was beaten. Ricardos personally led a cavalry charge to break up the flanking column, then he returned to the crisis of the battle in the center. D'Aoust merely skirmished with Crespo near Mas Deu and never mounted a serious threat to the Spanish right. This allowed Ricardos to mass his cavalry against Dagobert's division. After disposing of Goguet, de la Unión marched to Trouillas to take the French center in reverse. Three French demi-brigades were surrounded and many prisoners taken. After an all-day battle Dagobert retreated northeast to Canohès.[5]

The Spanish victory was also helped by disorganization and poor logistical arrangements on the part of the French.[4]

Result

Though Dagobert admitted only 1,500 casualties, historian

Tech River. On 3 October, the Spanish commander and 15,000 troops repulsed d'Aoust and 16,000 Frenchmen at Le Boulou on the Tech. In that action, 1,200 French soldiers became casualties against only 300 Spaniards.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Smith 1998, p. 57.
  2. ^ Smith, p 48
  3. ^ Prats, Peyrestortes
  4. ^ a b c Prats, Trouillas
  5. ^ Rickard 2009.
  6. ^ Prats, Dagobert

References

  • Cust, Edward (1859). "Annals of the Wars: 1783–1795, Volume 4". London: Mitchell's Military Library. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
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Preceded by
First Battle of Wissembourg (1793)
French Revolution: Revolutionary campaigns
Battle of Truillas
Succeeded by
Second Battle of Wissembourg (1793)