1. LA BATALLA DE
ALMANSA
CEIP PEDRO DUQUE ALICANTE

2. GUERRA DE SUCESIÓN

3. BATTLE OF ALMANSA
 The Battle of Almansa, fought on 25 April 1707, was one of the
most decisive engagements of the War of the Spanish Succession. At
Almansa, the Franco–Spanish army under Berwick soundly defeated
the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the United Provinces led
by the Earl of Galway, reclaiming most of eastern Spain for the
Bourbons.

4.  The Bourbon army of about 25,000 was composed of Spanish and French
troops in equal proportion, as well as an Irish regiment. Opposing them was
a mainly Anglo-Portuguese force with strong Dutch, German, and French
Huguenot elements.
 The Battle began with an artillery exchange. When Galway committed his
reserves to an attack on the Bourbon centre, Berwick unleashed a strong
force of Franco-Spanish cavalry against the weakened Anglo-Portuguese
lines, sweeping away the Portuguese cavalry. A general rout followed, only
the Portuguese infantry held, attacked by the three sides, and tried to retire
fighting. They surrendered by nightfall. Galway lost 5,000 men killed and
12,000 taken prisoner; of his army of 22,000 only 5,000 escaped to Tortosa.

5. AFTERMATH

6.  The victory was a major step in the consolidation of Spain under
the Bourbons. With the main allied army destroyed, Philip V of Spain
regained the initiative and gained Valencia.
 The city of Xàtiva was burned, and its name changed to San Felipe
in order to punish it. (In memory of these events, nowadays the
portrait of the monarch still hangs upside down in the local museum
of L'Almodí).
 Before long, the only remaining allies of the Habsburg
pretender, Archduke Charles, were his supporters in Catalonia and
Balearic Islands.

8. RECREATION OF THE
BATTLE