Siege of Barcelona | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part of War of the Spanish Succession | |||||||
Lord Peterborough overseeing the Siege of Barcelona |
|||||||
|
|||||||
Belligerents | |||||||
England Austria Portugal Dutch Republic Pro-Habsburg Spain |
France Pro-Bourbon Spain |
||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Lord Peterborough James Stanhope Cloudesley Shovell Philips van Almonde |
Francisco de Velasco |
|
The Siege of Barcelona took place between 14 September and 19 October 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession when an Allied army supporting the Austrian pretender to the Spanish throne led by Lord Peterborough captured the city of Barcelona from its Franco-Spanish Bourbonic defenders.
An attempted landing had been repulsed the previous year at the Battle of Barcelona (1704). Following the city's capture by Peterborough, the French and Spanish launched a concerted attempt to recapture it the following year during the Siege of Barcelona (1706), which failed. The city remained in Allied hands until 1714.