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Engagement Details
French Forces Garrison
Coalition Forces [ Spanish]
Puigcerda
The small French garrison holding the Spanish town were attacked by a superior Spanish force. Few were killed or wounded on both sides but all the French were captured.
Fought :
26 July 1795
type :
Land battle,
As part of :
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
,
French War of the First Coalition
Location :
A Spanish town in the Pyrenees almost on the Franco-Spanish border about 60 miles from the Mediterranean coast.
Outcome :
A victory for Coalition Forces [ Spanish] over French Forces Garrison
Figures
# engaged
total casualties
%
French Forces Garrison
1,500
1,500
100
Coalition Forces [ Spanish]
7,000
?
n/a
Select bibliography
On the war/campaign :
Pope, Stephen - "The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars" [Cassell, 1999]
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