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Battle of Mas Deu

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On 17 April 1793 Captain General Antonio Ricardos began the invasion of France when he descended on Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans in the French Cerdagne with 4,500 Spanish troops. The six battalions and eight grenadier companies led by Ricardos chased 400 French soldiers out of the village. The Spanish next headed for Céret on the Tech River where they encountered one French regular battalion, 1,000 volunteers, and four artillery pieces on 20 April. The clash ended disastrously for the 1,800 French who quickly took fright and ran away. Between 100 and 200 Frenchmen became casualties while another 200 drowned trying to swim across the Tech. Ricardos admitted losing only 17 men wounded in the skirmish. The Spanish general left a force at Le Perthus to watch the garrison of the Fort de Bellegarde

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the War of the Pyrenees

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Antonio Ricardos Louis de Flers

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Chapel at the Commandery of Mas Deu

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Trouillas, Pyrénées Orientales, France

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Battle of Mas Deu

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On 17 April 1793 Captain General Antonio Ricardos began the invasion of France when he descended on Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans in the French Cerdagne with 4,500 Spanish troops. The six battalions and eight grenadier companies led by Ricardos chased 400 French soldiers out of the village. The Spanish next headed for Céret on the Tech River where they encountered one French regular battalion, 1,000 volunteers, and four artillery pieces on 20 April. The clash ended disastrously for the 1,800 French who quickly took fright and ran away. Between 100 and 200 Frenchmen became casualties while another 200 drowned trying to swim across the Tech. Ricardos admitted losing only 17 men wounded in the skirmish. The Spanish general left a force at Le Perthus to watch the garrison of the Fort de Bellegarde and keep it from interfering with his supply convoys. On 14 May 1793, General of Division Louis-Charles de Flers took command of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees. At about the same time General of Brigade Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert and Colonel Eustache Charles d'Aoust arrived with reinforcements from the Army of Italy. The French army was encamped on a hill high near Mas Deu, which is located east of Trouillas. The position overlooked the Aspres plain and was protected by two deep-cut stream beds. The Chateau of Mansus Déi was built by the Knights Templar in the 12th century and used as an administrative center for their extensive properties in Rousillon. In its heyday the Templar establishment raised cattle, grapes, olives, and other crops on lands that stretched from Fenolheda in the north to Banyuls-sur-Mer in the south. The wealth and secrecy of the Templar Order made powerful enemies. Desiring to appropriate the order's riches, King Philip IV of France demanded the arrest of all Templars in France in 1307. The knights were rounded up, put to the torture, burned at the stake in many cases; their wealth became the property of the French king. Philip soon bent Pope Clement V to his purposes and the Templar Order was suppressed outside of France as well. In 1312 all property of the order was given to the Knights Hospitaller. In time, the name of the place changed to Mas Deu (pronounced: day'-oo). In World War II the German occupiers used the chateau as an ammunition dump. This was detonated in 1944, destroying the chateau, though some outbuildings survived to be used in the modern-day winery.