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 in...
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surprise Siege of Namur (1692) by the French (under Louis XIV and Vauban) Siege of Namur (1695) by the Allies (Dutch, English, and Brandenburgers) Siege of Namur...
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history Siege of Casale (1695) – Nine Years' War Siege of Namur (1695) – Nine Years' War Capitulation of Diksmuide (1695) – Nine Years' War Siege of Mombasa...
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Menno van Coehoorn (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
then recaptured in September 1694. The focus of the 1695 Allied campaign was the second Siege of Namur. The fortifications had been strengthened by Vauban...
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the siege. Three years later, in 1695, William III of Orange retook Namur. But the Dutch occupation did not last long. At the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713...
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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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William III of Orange-Nassau captured Namur only three years later in 1695 during the War of the Grand Alliance. Under the Barrier Treaty of 1709, the Dutch...
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Nine Years' War (redirect from Siege of Mainz (1689))
sham siege and nominal resistance Casale surrendered to Amadeus on 9 July 1695; by mid-September the place had been razed. In the winter of 1695–1696...
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June 1691, then Patrick Hume, who was severely wounded at the Siege of Namur in July 1695. In reality, Major Robert Duncanson appears to have largely performed...
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Michael Godfrey (category 1695 deaths)
February 1658 – 1695) was an English merchant and financier, who was one of the founders and the first deputy governor of the Bank of England. Godfrey...
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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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financially exhausted; the focus of the 1695 campaign was the Allied siege of Namur, captured by the French in 1692. By attacking garrisons like Diksmuide...
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Brussels gallery seems but the precursor of larger and more powerful works, such as the Siege of Namur (1695) in the Belvedere at Vienna, where William...
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walls of Brussels - Senne - Seventeen Provinces - Siege of Hulst (1591), Siege of Hulst (1596), Siege of Hulst (1645) - Siege of Leuven - Siege of Namur (1695)...
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François Nicolas Fagel (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
he participated with great distinction in the Siege of Namur; with 3 Dutch regiments he was in charge of the attack on the works at the St. Nicolas Gate;...
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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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"command against the law of nature". July 12 – The Siege of Namur begins in the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium). July 15 – The siege of the Ottoman fortress...
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William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney (category British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745)
Training of the British Army 1715-1795 (PHD). King's College London. Lenihan, Padraig (2011). "Namur Citadel, 1695: A Case Study in Allied Siege Tactics"...
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Louis-François de Boufflers (redirect from Louis François, Duke of Boufflers)
XIV of France. He was famed for his excellent defensive leadership during the sieges of Namur and Lille, next to his conduct during the Battle of Malplaquet...
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Fort Knokke (category Military history of Belgium)
Knocque was a feint attack, intended to distract the French from the Siege of Namur which followed in July. Even if the Allies had managed to widen their...
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Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Dirk Maas in the RKD Watercolor of the Siege of Namur (1695) by Dirk Maas on Geheugen...
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Maximilian II Emanuel (redirect from Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria)
August, the principal beneficiaries of his ambitions. The unsuccessful siege and bombardment of Brussels in 1695 during the Nine Years' War by French...
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Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kildare constituencies)
Landen (1693), and as an engineer at the siege of Namur (1695). During this time, he absorbed the ideas of the Dutch engineer Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1740)...
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of Stirling through his wife Margaret Bruce of Auchinbowie. Later as a Major in Sir Charles Graham's Regiment of Foot he fought at the Siege of Namur...
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Henry Lumley (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
Landen, and helped cover the escape of William III during the retreat there. He was present in at the Siege of Namur (1695), and was promoted major general...
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Emanuel Howe (British Army officer) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
where he was wounded at the 1695 Siege of Namur. He purchased a colonelcy in 1695, and was Colonel of the 15th Regiment of Foot until his death. He was...
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Jacques-Louis Comte de Noyelles (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
Prince of Vaudémont he commanded the allied troops diverting marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy during the Siege of Namur (1695). He was...
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Isaac Cronström (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
the commanders of the Swedish soldiers in Dutch service. As such he took part in the Battle of Landen and the Siege of Namur in 1695. In 1697 he was...
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at the Siege of Namur, 1695 (in the collection of the National Army Museum, London) The battle of the Boyne, prior to the death of the Duke of Schomberg...
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John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts (redirect from Cutts of Gowran)
in the following year, distinguishing himself again at the famous Siege of Namur (1695), winning the name "Salamander" by his indifference to the heaviest...
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