The spring of 1794 finds the Spanish…
May 1794 CE
The Second Battle of Boulou, April 29 to May 1, 1794, sees the French Army of the eastern Pyrenees led by Dugommier attacking the joint Spanish-Portuguese Army of Catalonia under Luis Firmin de Carvajal, Conde de la Union.
Le Boulou is on the modern A9 highway, twenty kilometers (twelve miles) south of the department capital at Perpignan and seven kilometers (four miles) north of Le Perthus on the France-Spain border.
The Spanish right wing on the Mediterranean coast is separated from the center and left wing by a mountainous gap.
First, Jacques François Dugommier mounts a successful feint with his right wing that draws Spanish troops away from the center.
He now launches powerful French forces into the gap.
These forces circle behind the Spanish center and force their adversaries to retreat across a difficult mountain pass.
The Spanish suffer heavy losses of troops and abandon their wagon trains and all their artillery.
Dugommier's decisive victory results in the French regaining nearly all the land they had lost to the Kingdom of Spain in 1793.