Modern map shows Villeongue-dels-Monts in relation to Le Boulou, Brouilla, and Montesquieu.
Date
7 and 18 December 1793
Location
Villelongue-dels-Monts, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Result
Spanish victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Spain Kingdom of Portugal
Republican France
Commanders and leaders
Antonio Ricardos John Forbes
François Doppet Eustache d'Aoust
Units involved
Army of Catalonia
Army of the Eastern Pyrenees
Strength
7 Dec.: 8,000
7 Dec.: 10,000, 40 guns
Casualties and losses
7 Dec.: 56
7 Dec.: 652, 26 guns
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War of the Pyrenees
Eastern Pyrenees
Mas Deu
1st Bellegarde
Perpignan
Peyrestortes
Truillas
1st Boulou
Villelongue
1st Collioure
2nd Boulou
2nd Collioure
1st Sant Llorenç
2nd Sant Llorenç
2nd Bellegarde
Black Mountain
Roses
Western Pyrenees
Château-Pignon
Sans Culottes Camp
Baztan
Orbaizeta
Bascara
Toulon
Fort-Dauphin
Gulf of Roses
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Portugal in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
War of the Pyrenees 1793-1795
Toulon
2nd Boulou
Sant Llorenç de la Muga
Villelongue
Capmany
Bascara
Mediterranean Campaign 1798
Malta
War of the Oranges 1801
First invasion of Portugal 1807–1808
Olhão
Padrões de Teixeira
Évora
Roliça
Vimeiro
Second invasion of Portugal 1809
Chaves
Braga
1st Porto
Amarante
Grijó
2nd Porto
Third invasion of Portugal 1810–1811
River Côa
1st Almeida
Bussaco
Trant's raid
Battle of Sobral
Pombal
Redinha
Condeixa
Casal Novo
Foz de Arouce
Sabugal
2nd Almeida
Fuentes de Oñoro
Aldeia da Ponte
Spain 1811-1813
1st Badajoz
Barrosa
2nd Badajoz
Usagre
El Bodón
Arroyo dos Molinos
Ciudad Rodrigo
3rd Badajoz
Almaraz
Salamanca Forts
Salamanca
Majadahonda
Burgos
Tordesillas
San Millan
Vitoria
Tolosa
Pamplona
San Sebastián
Pyrenees
Maya
Roncesvalles
Sorauren
Lizasso
Buenza
France 1813-1814
Bidassoa
Nivelle
Nive
Garris
Orthez
Toulouse
Bayonne
Overseas
Guerra de 1801
Guiana
Banda Oriental
The Battle of Villelongue (7 and 18 December 1793) saw a Royal Spanish force from the army commanded by Antonio Ricardos attack a position held by a Republican French force from the army led by François Amédée Doppet. Spanish and French attack columns passed each other in the night without detecting each other. On 7 December, the Spanish attack on Villelongue-dels-Monts was delivered first and was completely successful, causing the French soldiers to flee. On 18 December, in order to cover a planned withdrawal, Doppet ordered an attack on the Portuguese garrison at Villelongue. Eustache Charles d'Aoust carried out the operation and overwhelmed the Portuguese. However, two days later, the French army was disastrously defeated at the Battle of Collioure and had to beat a hasty retreat to Perpignan.[1]
^Phipps 2011, pp. 163–166.
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