Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Casal (Wars of Louis XIV).

Fought April 1640, between the French, 10,000 strong, under Harcourt, and the Spaniards, numbering 20,000, who were besieging Casal. Harcourt pierced the Spanish lines and totally defeated them, with a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded, 800 prisoners, and 18 guns.