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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Lerida (Thirty Years' War).

Fought September, 1642, between the Spaniards, under Leganez, and the French, under Lamothe-Houdancourt. The Spanish army was defeated, and this victory, in conjunction with the fall of Perpignan, gave the French possession of Roussillon.