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    The siege of La Rochelle of 15721573 was a massive military assault on the Huguenot city of La Rochelle by Catholic troops during the fourth phase of the...
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    The siege of La Rochelle (French: le siège de La Rochelle, or sometimes le grand siège de La Rochelle) was a result of a war between the French royal forces...
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    Henri d'Angoulême (category Dukes of Angoulême)
    height of the French Wars of Religion, engaging in the massive Siege of La Rochelle (15721573), organized by the Duke of Anjou, future Henry III of France...
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    protagonist of the Franco-Ottoman alliance. The city was finally besieged during the siege of La Rochelle (15721573) during the French Wars of Religion...
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    The siege of Sancerre (15721573) was a siege of the fortified hilltop city of Sancerre in central France during the Wars of Religion where the Huguenot...
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  • La Rochelle Battle of La Rochelle (1419) between the Castilians and a joint Flemish-Hanseatic fleet off La Rochelle Siege of La Rochelle (15721573)...
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    returned to France with a fleet in an attempt to relieve the Siege of La Rochelle in 1573. The following year he attempted an insurrection in Normandy...
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    reconcile the inhabitants of La Rochelle, the great stronghold of the Huguenots, to the king (see Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573)). But the Rochellois were...
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    notably at the battles of Kircholm (1605), Klushino (1610), and Khotyn (1673). Their military prowess peaked at the Siege of Vienna in 1683, when hussar...
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  • (1572–74) – Eighty Years' War Siege of La Rochelle (15721573), assault on the Huguenot city of La Rochelle during the French Wars of Religion. Siege of...
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    Ponte Tresa or Mesanzena, today in Switzerland. During the Siege of La Rochelle (15721573), he successfully engineered a mine under a bastion and breached...
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    Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against...
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    Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573). Henry III, whom he accompanied to Poland named him governor of Lyon. In the war with the League, he forced La Fère to...
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    of Montauban before being forced to divert them to Anjou's Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573). The troops had been so ill-disciplined he had made little...
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  • Hubert de Garde de Vins (category History of Catholicism in France)
    He was squire to the Duke of Anjou, future Henry III, at the siege of La Rochelle (15721573). Disappointed by the attitude of Henry III after his return...
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    the Wars of Religion, and in 1572/1573 led the siege of La Rochelle, a massive military assault on the Huguenot-held city. At the end of May 1573, Henry...
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    advantage of the disarray of the Huguenots by ordering the siege of La Rochelle, but was unable to take the Protestant stronghold. Many of Charles' decisions...
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  • August 1572; this phase of the wars included the siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573) and the Siege of Sancerre). The treaty severely curtailed many of the rights...
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    d'Albret 15721573: usually known as the "Fourth War", ended by the Edict of Boulogne November 1572 – July 1573: Siege of La Rochelle May 1573: Henry d'Anjou...
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    forces assembled at the siege of La Rochelle; and some years after in 1635, during the Thirty Years' War, he was general of the French army in Lorraine...
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    After Henry, Duke of Anjou learns that he has been elected the King of Poland, he agrees to negotiate an end to the Siege of La Rochelle, which has continued...
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    Geuzen (redirect from Gueux de la mer)
    Eighteen ships received letters of marque, which were equipped by Louis of Nassau in the French Huguenot port of La Rochelle, which they continued to use...
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  • of Religion (European wars of religion) Battle of Moncontour – 1569 – French Wars of Religion (European wars of religion) Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573)...
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  • de la paix, œuvre extrait du second livre des poëmes de l'auteur, 1572 La Rochelléide, contenant un nouveau discours sur la ville de la Rochelle, suivant...
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  • national synod of the French reformed churches and affirmation of faith with the Confession de La Rochelle. 1573 Siege of La Rochelle (1572–73) during the...
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    Charles de Balsac, baron de Dunes (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    led 1573 siege of La Rochelle, the city having risen up in response to the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. During 1573 Anjou was elected as king of the...
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    stronghold of La Rochelle. Louis XIII chose however to move south with his main force for the Siege of Montauban. Meanwhile, Louis XIII ordered the Duke of Épernon...
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  • hands of it, and the blood which may be shed shall be on your heads." In February 1586, the Prince of Condé occupied La Rochelle and the isle of Oléron...
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    This is a chronological list of battles involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792). For pre-987 battles, see List of battles involving the Franks and...
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    The siege of Mons of 1572 took place at Mons, capital of the County of Hainaut, Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), between 23 June and 19 September...
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