[1] It was one of the final actions of the long-running Franco-Spanish War, ending in a decisive victory for the French and their English Republican allies.

As British Royalist exiles fought alongside the defeated Spanish, it also functioned as one of the final clashes of the War of the Three Kingdoms.

[2] The painting portrays the Anglo-French commander, the Viscount of Turenne, leading a charge.

[3] The painting was ordered in 1836 by Louis Philippe I for the newly restored Palace of Versailles.

Louis Philippe commissioned a number of works glorifying French history.