Siege of Barcelona (1697)

The Siege of Barcelona of 1697 was successfully conducted during the Nine Years' War by France. Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, commanding some 32,000 troops (reinforced with troops from the ended Italian front of the war), forced the garrison, under Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, to capitulate on 10 August. Yet it had been a hard fought contest: according to John Lynn, French casualties amounted to about 9,000, and the Spanish had suffered some 12,000 killed, wounded or lost, while Antonio Espino López sets the Spanish losses at 4,500 killed and 800 wounded, and the French casualties at 15,000 men, including 52 engineers.