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Battle of Brihuega
The Battle of Brihuega took place on 8 December 1710 in the War of the Spanish Succession, during the allied retreat from Madrid to Barcelona. The British rearguard under Lord Stanhope was cut off within the town of Brihuega and overwhelmed by a Franco-Spanish army under the duc de Vendôme. Brihuega with other events brought an end to the British participation in the war.
Prelude.
In 1710, victories at the Battle of Almenara (July 27) and the Battle of Saragossa (August 20)
Madrid: Asilo de Huérfanos de de S.C. de Jesús, 1884.
- Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Miguel. "Bosquejo histórico de Brihuega y sus pueblos". Madrid: T. Sánchez 1981.
See also.
- Church of la Virgen de la Asunción (Romancos)
References.
- Hugh Thomas, "The Spanish Civil War", Modern Library, 2001,
- Antony Beevor, "The Battle for Spain", Orion, 1982 revised 2006,
External links.
- Brihuega
- Brihuega