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    siege of Ath (15 May 1697 – 5 June 1697) was a siege of the Nine Years' War. The French stockpiled 266,000 French pounds of gunpowder for the siege and...
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    War, he supervised the capture of Namur in 1692, the major French achievement of the war, while the 1697 siege of Ath is often considered his offensive...
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  • conflicts Siege of Pemaquid (1696) – Nine Years' War Siege of Fort Nashwaak (1696) – Nine Years' War Siege of Ath (1697) – Nine Years' War Siege of Barcelona...
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    French Royal Army (category Military history of France)
    Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas (1695) Siege of Namur (1695) Siege of Diksmuide (1695) Siege of Ath (1697) Siege of Barcelona (1697) Battle of Chiari (1701)...
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  • François Zénobe Philippe Albergotti (category French military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    present at the Bombardment of Brussels with François de Neufville, 2nd Duke of Villeroy. In 1697 he took part in the Siege of Ath (1697). In 1698 he served in...
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  • in 1688. He perfected it at the siege of Ath in 1697. Cathal J. Nolan (2008). ABC/CLIO (ed.). Wars of the Age of Louis Xiv, 1650-1715. p. 17. ISBN 9780313359200...
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    The siege of Barcelona of 1697 was successfully conducted during the Nine Years' War by France. Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, commanding some 32,000...
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    The Nine Years' War was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. Although largely concentrated in Europe...
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    Nicolas Catinat (category Marshals of France)
    Treaty of Turin on 29 August 1696). In 1693 Catinat was made a marshal of France and in 1697 he led the French forces in the victorious Siege of Ath. At...
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    the town of Deinze, while the French captured Ath, but this changed little strategically. The Peace of Ryswick was signed on 20 September 1697. Van Nimwegen...
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    Willem Vleertman (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    participated in the siege and capture of Namur. During the years 1697 and 1698, he accompanied a son of François de Vicq, mayor of Amsterdam, on a journey...
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    successful attack by the French on the fortified city of Cartagena de Indias, on 6 May 1697, as part of the War of the Grand Alliance. By 1695, the French Navy...
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    The siege of Limerick in western Ireland was a second siege of the town during the Williamite War in Ireland (1689–1691). The city, held by Jacobite forces...
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    The 1695 Siege of Namur or Second Siege of Namur took place during the Nine Years' War between 2 July and 4 September 1695. Its capture by the French...
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  • Battle of Cenei 26 August - Ottoman victory over Austria. Siege of Ath 16 May - 5 June - France captures Ath from Spain. Action of 6 July 1697 - Venetian...
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    Stanhope: History of the War of the Succession in Spain, 97. Velasco had been governor of Catalonia in 1697 at the time of the French siege, and had lately...
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    point of the Little Ice Age, a period of cold and wet weather that drastically reduced crop yields across Europe. The Great Famine of 1695–1697 killed...
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    especially due to an increase in the average size of armies from 25,000 in 1648 to over 100,000 by 1697, levels unsustainable for pre-industrial economies...
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    Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    general in 1697. William III, after naturalising him as an English citizen, made also made him Chief Marshal. In England, he met the Duke of Marlborough...
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    Leaving 22,000 men to continue the siege, Saxe placed his main force about 8 kilometres (5 mi) away in the villages of Antoing, Vezon and Fontenoy, along...
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    the governor of Ath an der Dender in the Netherlands, and vigorously defended it. He died heirless in 1749. Official website of the House of Wurmbrand-Stuppach...
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    The Capitulation of Diksmuide, or Dixmuide, then in the Spanish Netherlands, took place from 26 to 28 July 1695, during the 1689 to 1697 Nine Years' War...
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    the British capture of Gibraltar; attempts to retake it were defeated at the naval Battle of Málaga in August 1704, with a land siege being abandoned in...
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    Belgium (redirect from Kingdom of Belgium)
    Dragons' of Ath, Brussels, Dendermonde, Mechelen and Mons, it is recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity...
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    Mons, Belgium (redirect from County of Mons)
    daughter of one of Chlothar II’s intendants, came to the oratory and was proclaimed a saint upon her death in 688. She was canonized in 1039. Like Ath, its...
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    allegiance to William of Orange. However, the Protestant dominated Irish Parliament rejected these terms, not ratifying the treaty until 1697—and then not in...
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    concurrent siege of Namur. The bombardment ultimately proved to be the most destructive event in the history of Brussels, destroying a third of the buildings...
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    Grand Alliance, and the Confederate Army in the Spanish Netherlands, 1688–1697. Ohio State University. Bosscha, Johannes (1838). Neêrlands heldendaden te...
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    Polygonal fort (category Warfare of the late modern period)
    circumference. The final refinement devised by Vauban was first used at the Siege of Ath in 1697, when he placed his artillery in the third parallel at a point close...
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    2nd Dragoon Regiment (France) (category Dragoon regiments of France)
    1690 and the Battle of Neerwinden on 29 July 1693, and fought in the 1697 siege of Ath, the final battle of the war. During the War of the Spanish Succession...
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