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Brihuega, Battle of

Years: 1710 - 1710

The Battle of Brihuega takes place on December 8, 1710 in the War of the Spanish Succession, during the allied retreat from Madrid to Barcelona.

The British rearguard under Lord Stanhope is cut off within the town of Brihuega and overwhelmed by a Franco-Spanish army under the duc de Vendôme.

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only to avoid them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)