The result of this battle was that Bavaria forsook the French alliance, and Germany became a secondary theatre of the general war, which was waged thereafter mainly in the Netherlands, Italy, and the Peninsula.
The following year, 1705, the allies moved against Philip V.by two roads,--from Lisbon upon Madrid, and by way of Barcelona.

The former attack, though based upon the sea, was mainly by land, and resultless; the Spanish people in that quarter showed unmistakably that they would not welcome the king set up by foreign powers.

It was different in Catalonia.

Carlos III.

went there in person with the allied fleet.