Siege Of Xàtiva (1707)
The siege of Xàtiva was a blockade of the town of Xàtiva in the Kingdom of Valencia. It took place between 8 May and 6 June 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession. Between 9,000 and 11,000 Kingdom of Castile, Castilian and Kingdom of France, French troops under Philip V of Spain, Philip of Bourbon commanded by Claude François Bidal d'Asfeld and José Antonio de Chaves Osorio faced an Kingdom of Aragon, Aragonese and Kingdom of Great Britain, British force of about 2,000 under Miguel Purroi and Josep Marco. The Franco-Castilian forces were victorious, and the city's defenders were massacred as an exemplary punishment. Most of the rest of the town's inhabitants were deported to the Manche region and the city was burned down and renamed 'San Felipe'. In reference to this episode in their history, Xàtiva's inhabitants are nicknamed 'socarrats' ('grilled people'). Bibliography

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