Day archive for July 3rd, 2008

Siege of Barcelona by the French in 1697

Posted: July 3rd 2008 10:58. Last modified: July 3rd 2008 11:07

From the Swedish Military Archive, this purports to show Vendôme at the head of some 32,000 troops bombarding Barcelona in the final stages of the Nine Years War:
Wikipedia: “The garrison capitulated on 10 August, but it had been a hard fought contest; French casualties amounted to about 9,000, and the Spanish had suffered some 12,000 [...]

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