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Once the war was over and the émigré units were dissolved, Caldagues was appointed colonel and second-in-command of the Borbón
Regiment (April 1796), a Spanish regiment of French royalist volunteers, and in May 1798, he was appointed its commander-in-chief. In October 1802, he was promoted to
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Angeles in the mountains outside Gerona with some 2,500 men, including
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Caldagues. Caldagues (Caldégas in French) was a hamlet in the
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