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Talamanca, Bages, Barcelona

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Battle of Talamanca

Historical milestone · Talamanca, Bages, Barcelona

On 13 and 14 August 1714, the Catalan forces of the Marquis del Poal defeated the Bourbon troops of the Count of Montemar near Talamanca, as part of the Catalonia campaign, the final phase of the War of the Spanish Succession. It was the last victory of the Catalan Austracist army, which pursued the Bourbon troops -more than 3000 men, less than half of them cavalry- to the outskirts of Sabadell, with fighting at Sant Llorenç Savall and Castellar del Vallès. Chronicles of the time speak of about 650 casualties, dead and wounded; it is estimated that around a hundred men died, eighty Bourbon and twenty Austracist. The battlefield has been the subject of archaeological surveys and there is an intention to turn it into a museum site.

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