Siege of Girona
1710 CE.
Shown on the map at 41.984°, 2.821°.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, the city of Girona was besieged by French troops allied with Bourbon Spain from 15 December 1710 until 25 January 1711, when its Habsburg defenders surrendered. The attacking Franco-Spanish army numbered some 19,000 and was commanded by Duke Adrien Maurice de Noailles. The city was well provisioned and hard to approach for artillery. It was defended by Count Georg Ignaz von Tattenbach. As Noailles began his march in the winter, the weather was harsh. Fort Rouge was undermined and abandoned, but flooding made the French artillery positions untenable for a time. They were reestablished on 14 January and had breached the walls by 23 January, when an assault party took up positions to enter the city. Tattenbach asked for terms the following day. The defenders were given the honours of war. Two Latin poems in praise of Noailles were written in response to the taking of Girona. Pierre D'Orival compared the duke's success to that of his father, Duke Anne Jules, at the siege of Girona in 1694.
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