[1] Six weeks later a large Spanish army of 40,000 men,[1] under Filippo Spinola and Francesc de Tamarit appeared and now besieged the French garrison of 2,000 men.

Now Salses was alone and hunger forced the French to surrender on 6 January 1640.

The Spanish army had also lost 10,000 men to disease and desertions.

[1] The presence of a large number of troops in Catalonia contributed to the outbreak of the Catalan Revolt a few months later and the murder of Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma, second in command at the siege of Salses.

Salses was retaken by the French after the Fall of Perpignan in September 1642.