The siege of Xàtiva was a siege of
Xàtiva in the
Kingdom of Valencia
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. It took place between 8 May and 6 June 1707 during the
War of the Spanish Succession. Between 9000 and 11000
Castilan and
French
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troops under
Philip of Bourbon commanded by
Claude François Bidal d'Asfeld and José Antonio de Chaves Osorio faced an
Aragonese and
British force of about 2,000 under Miguel Purroi and Josep Marco. The Franco-Castilan 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').
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