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    The siege of Breisach was fought on 18 August — 17 December 1638 as part of Thirty Years' War. It ended after several unsuccessful relief attempts by...
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  • The siege of Neu-Breisach was a battle of encirclement in the Franco-Prussian War, which took place from 13 October until 10 November 1870 in France....
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    top of the military hierarchy. He rose to prominence during the Thirty Years' War by capturing the fortress of Breisach in 1638. Promoted Marshal of France...
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  • at Neu-Breisach, Von Schmeling focused on besieging Sélestat. During the siege, De Reinach de Foussemagne[clarification needed] was in charge of defending...
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    The siege of Philippsburg was a siege of the fortress of Philippsburg during the Franco-Dutch War. In French hands since 1644 - with Breisach, it was...
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    in the army of his friend Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, distinguishing himself particularly at the siege of Breisach in 1638. On the death of Bernard he received...
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    1703 AD, during the siege of Breisach by French troops, the village itself was completely destroyed. This siege was part of the War of the Spanish Succession...
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    to initiate the siege of Breisach. In the 1970 movie The Last Valley, a mercenary captain (played by Michael Caine) and his band of fighters take up...
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    Siege of Breda of 1624–1625 occurred during the Eighty Years' War. The siege resulted in Breda, a Dutch fortified city, falling into the control of the...
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    the later Marshal Turenne. The besieged Breisach Fortress suffered from a severe lack of food soon after the siege began and attempts to provide relief and...
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    The siege of Douai, which lasted from 22 April 1710 until the capitulation of the garrison under lieutenant-general François Zénobe Philippe Albergotti...
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    The siege of Barcelona (Catalan: Setge de Barcelona, IPA: [ˈsedʒə ðə βəɾsəˈlonə]) was a thirteen month battle at the end of the War of Spanish Succession...
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    The Siege of Brno, which occurred from 3 May 3 to 23 August 1645, was the second Swedish siege of the city of Brno in the last years of the Thirty Years'...
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    The siege of Pilsen (or Plzeň) or Battle of Pilsen was a siege of the fortified city of Pilsen (Czech: Plzeň) in Bohemia carried out by the forces of the...
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    The Siege of Turin took place from June to September 1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession. A French army led by Louis de la Feuillade besieged...
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    forces under the command of a Flemish mercenary, Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly laid siege to the city within a matter of months.: 107  The city was...
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    The siege of Mons took place between 19 September and 23 October 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession. It saw a Franco-Spanish garrison in the...
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    The siege of Menin (1706) was a siege by the Allies against the French during the War of the Spanish Succession. In the wake of the Allied victory over...
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    The siege of Venlo was a 12-day siege of the city of Venlo commenced by the Grand Alliance which saw the city being taken after being occupied by French...
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    The First Siege of Corbie took place from the 7th to the 15th of August, 1636 during the Thirty Years' War and the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) where a...
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    The siege of 's-Hertogenbosch also known as the siege of Bois-Le-Duc was an action in 1629, during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War in which...
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    The siege of Bouchain (9 August – 12 September 1711), following the Passage of the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra (5 August 1711), was a siege of the War of the...
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    stood in front of the gates of Freiburg that surrendered after an eleven-day siege on 12 April. Subsequently, Bernard laid siege to Breisach for eight months...
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    The siege of Kreuznach or the Spanish capture of Kreuznach took place on 10 September 1620, at Kreuznach (renamed Bad Kreuznach in 1924) in the Palatinate...
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    The siege of Nuremberg was a campaign that took place in 1632 about the Imperial City of Nuremberg during the Thirty Years' War. In July 1632, rather than...
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    The siege of Lille (12 August – 10 December 1708) was the salient operation of the 1708 campaign season during the War of the Spanish Succession. After...
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    siege positions around Breisach a few days later. The fall of Breisach on 17 December largely cut off Franche-Comté from the Empire and the rest of the...
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    The siege of Tournai was a siege of the city of Tournai, then part of the Kingdom of France, between 28 June and 3 September 1709. A Grand Alliance army...
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    The siege of Jülich was a major operation in the second phase of the Eighty Years' War that took place from 5 September 1621 to 3 February 1622. A few...
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