Spanish troops in the Battle of Fleurus (1690) and unsuccessfully defended Mons against the French. He began a new royal chapel of Saint Joseph in Waterloo in 1687 an attempt to curry favour with the court, but was recalled to Madrid for his failure to hold Mons. Inserted from < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Antonio_de_Agurto,_Marquis_of_Gasta%C3%B1aga