About: Battle of Peyrestortes   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/krD_GSPHhNL2IejCI7diCQ==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Spanish army of Antonio Ricardos had occupied part of Rousillon and made an abortive attempt to seize the fortress of Perpignan in July. At the end of August, the Spanish commander sent two divisions on a sweep around the western side of Perpignan in an attempt to isolate the fortress and choke it off from resupply. After an initial Spanish success, the French army commander lost his nerve and failed to respond to enemy moves.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Battle of Peyrestortes
rdfs:comment
  • The Spanish army of Antonio Ricardos had occupied part of Rousillon and made an abortive attempt to seize the fortress of Perpignan in July. At the end of August, the Spanish commander sent two divisions on a sweep around the western side of Perpignan in an attempt to isolate the fortress and choke it off from resupply. After an initial Spanish success, the French army commander lost his nerve and failed to respond to enemy moves.
sameAs
Strength
  • 6000(xsd:integer)
  • 8000(xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Partof
  • the War of the Pyrenees
Date
  • 1793-09-17(xsd:date)
Commander
  • Antonio Ricardos
  • Eustache d'Aoust
  • Jerónimo Girón
  • Juan de Courten
  • Louis Antoine Goguet
Caption
  • Some parts of Perpignan's ramparts survive today. Rather than attack the fortress directly, the Spanish tried to surround it.
Casualties
  • 200(xsd:integer)
  • 1702(xsd:integer)
Result
  • French victory
Campaign
  • War of the First Coalition
combatant
  • France
  • Spain
Place
  • Peyrestortes, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Conflict
  • Battle of Peyrestortes
abstract
  • The Spanish army of Antonio Ricardos had occupied part of Rousillon and made an abortive attempt to seize the fortress of Perpignan in July. At the end of August, the Spanish commander sent two divisions on a sweep around the western side of Perpignan in an attempt to isolate the fortress and choke it off from resupply. After an initial Spanish success, the French army commander lost his nerve and failed to respond to enemy moves. D'Aoust and Louis Antoine Goguet stepped into the command vacuum and led their troops to attack and rout the two Spanish divisions from their fortified camps. After the battle, the Army of Catalonia found itself back in its original positions. Ricardos successfully defended the Spanish foothold in France during the remainder of 1793. But the following year saw a string of French victories in this part of the French Revolutionary Wars. Peyrestortes is located seven km northwest of Perpignan.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software