page_title: Battle of Villaviciosa
section_title: Right wing
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Villaviciosa / Bourbon deployment / Second line / Right wing
caption_attribution_description: Portrait de Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Maréchal de France, 1706
context_page_description: The Battle of Villaviciosa was a battle between a Franco-Spanish army led by Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme and Philip V of Spain and a Habsburg-allied army commanded by Austrian Guido Starhemberg. The battle took place during the War of the Spanish Succession, one day after a Franco-Spanish victory at Brihuega against the British army under James Stanhope. Both Philip V of Spain and the Archduke Charles of Austria claimed victory, but the number of dead and wounded, the number of artillery and other weapons abandoned by the Allied army and the battle's strategic consequences for the war confirmed victory for Philip.
  The battle was largely determined by the Spanish dragoons commanded by the Marquis of Valdecañas and the Count of Aguilar, which far exceeded the opposing forces. The Austrian forces retreated, pursued by Spanish cavalry, and the allied army was reduced to 6,000 or 7,000 men when it reached Barcelona on 6 January.
context_section_description: Commander: Count of Merode (subordinate to the Marquis of Valdecañas)
  Cavalry squadrons:
  Asturias (four squadrons)
  Muerte
  Pozoblanco (four squadrons)
  Estrella
  Lanzarote (three squadrons)
  Extremadura (three squadrons)
caption: Franco-Spanish army commander Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme
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