Spain, where the Spanish can offer nothing …
Years: 1694 - 1694
June
Spain, where the Spanish can offer nothing more than token resistance and the Allies are unable to provide enough support, is the only decisive theater on the continent.
The war in Spain is a sideshow, however, for Louis.
The theater is dominated by amphibious warfare where naval assistance is necessary to seize coastal towns, of which Barcelona is the greatest prize.
The French forces, commanded by Duke de Noailles, numbered twelve thousand in 1690 dropping to ten thousand in 1691; only in 1694 when other fronts are relatively quiet does the Spanish front grow in importance, (but even now Louis invests only twenty-six thousand troops).
After Roses fell in 1693, the French had driven deeper into Catalonia, and defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Torroella (Ter) on May 27 and taking Palamos on June 10; Gerona falls on June 29.
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Years: 1694 - 1694
June
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- Austria, Archduchy of
- Bavaria, Wittelsbach Duchy of
- Saxony, Electorate of
- Palatinate, Electoral (Wittelsbach)
- Brandenburg, (Hohenzollern) Margravate of
- Sweden, (second) Kingdom of
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
- Savoy, Duchy of
- Hesse-Kassel, Landgraviate of
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
- England, (Orange and Stewart) Kingdom of
- Grand Alliance
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