Battle of Almansa
Part of the War of the Spanish Succession
The Battle of Almansa by Ricardo Balaca. Oil on canvas, 1862, Congreso de los Diputados, Madrid.
Date April 25, 1707 Location Almansa, near Albacete, Spain Result Decisive Franco-Spanish victory
Combatants
Philippists Kingdom of France Kingdom of Spain	Austriacists Britain Portugal United Provinces
Commanders
Duke of Berwick	Marquis de Ruvigny Marquês das Minas
Strength
25,000	22,000
Casualties
3,500 dead or wounded	5,000 dead or wounded 12,000 captured

The Battle of Almansa, fought on April 25, 1707, was one of the most decisive engagements of the War of the Spanish Succession. At Almansa, the Franco–Spanish Empire army under Berwick soundly defeated the allied forces of Portugal, Britain, and the United Provinces led by the Count of Galway, reclaiming most of eastern Spain for the Bourbons. Charles II was the last Habsburg King of Spain. ... Image File history File links Batalladealmansa. ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal March 26 - The Acts of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. ... Almansa is Spanish city in the province of Albacete Categories: Municipalities in Spain ... 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The battle

The Bourbon army of about 25,000 was composed of French and Spanish troops in equal proportion, as well as an Irish regiment. Opposing them was a mainly Anglo-Portuguese force with strong Dutch, German, and French Huguenot elements. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name Huguenot was applied to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, historically known as the French Calvinists. ...

The battle began with an artillery exchange. When Galway committed his reserves to an attack on the Bourbon centre, Berwick unleashed a strong force of Franco-Spanish cavalry against the weakened Anglo-Portuguese lines, sweeping away the Portuguese horse. A general rout followed. Galway lost 5,000 men killed and 12,000 taken prisoner; of his army of 22,000 only 5,000 escaped to Tortosa. A view of Tortosa Tortosa (Latin Dertusa, Arabic طرطوشة Ṭurṭūšah) is the capital of the comarca of Baix Ebre, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain, located at 12 metres above the sea, by the Ebre river. ...

Aftermath

The victory was a major step in the consolidation of Spain under the Bourbons. With the main pro-Habsburg army in Spain destroyed, the duc d'Anjou regained the initiative and recovered Valencia. Before long, the only remaining allies of Charles of Habsburg were his supporters in Catalonia. Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy; also used as the flag of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867. ... King Philip V of Spain (December 19, 1683 – July 9, 1746) or Philippe of Anjou was king of Spain from 1700 to 1746, the first of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain. ... Capital Valencia Official language(s) Castilian and Valencian Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 8th  23,255 km²  4. ... Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI Charles VI of Austria (October 1, 1685 – October 20, 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740 and the second son of Leopold I with his third wife, Eleonore-Magdalena of Pfalz-Neuburg, came first to the throne with the name Charles III of... Anthem: Els Segadors Capital Barcelona Official language(s) Spanish, Catalan, and Aranese Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 6th  32,114 km²  6. ...

Legacy

Frederick the Great referred to Almansa as "the most scientific battle of our century," while Winston Churchill once compared the crushing British defeat to the disasters awaiting the British Army at the hands of Nazi Germany in the early years of the Second World War. Frederick II of Prussia (German: ; January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786) of Hohenzollern dynasty, ruled the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 to 1786. ... Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English statesman, soldier, and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33...

In the present-day Land of Valencia, proverbs recalling this defeat are still in common usage: Quan el mal ve d'Almansa, a tots alcança ("Evil tidings spare no one when they come from Almansa," or, more literally, "When the wrong comes from Almansa, it reaches everybody"), De ponent, ni vent ni gent ("From the west, neither wind nor people"). Capital Valencia Official languages Valencian (Catalan) and Castilian (Spanish) Area  â€“ total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 8th  23,255 km²  4. ...

External links

• Almansa 2007 III Centenario
• La Batalla de Almansa

http://historiadealmansa.usuarios.tvalmansa.com/la_batalla_de_almansa.htm Batalla de Almansa