The siege of Tournai was a two-month siege of the city and citadel of Tournai, then part of the Austrian Netherlands, in 1745 during the War of the Austrian...
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Tournai in Wallonia, Belgium, has been sieged multiple times, including: Siege of Tournai (1197): The Count of Flanders and Hainault, Baldwin VI of Hainaut...
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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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Siege of Tournai (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession Siege of Louisbourg (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War) Siege of Port Toulouse...
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Maurice de Saxe (redirect from Maurice, Count of Saxe)
the age of twelve, Maurice served in the Imperial Army under Prince Eugene of Savoy, at the sieges of Tournai and Mons and at the Battle of Malplaquet...
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France in 1745. In 1794, France annexed the Austrian Netherlands during the French Revolutionary Wars and Tournai became part of the department of Jemmape...
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The Battle of Fontenoy took place on 11 May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Tournai, then part of the Austrian Netherlands, now in...
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The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took...
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Austrian Netherlands would be the siege of Tournai in late April 1745. The French evacuated Ypres after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748). Browning...
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Austrian Netherlands would be the Siege of Tournai in late April 1745. The French evacuated Menin after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748). DBNL, Jan...
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Tournaisis (redirect from Tournai and the Tournaisis)
of Utrecht (1713). Recaptured by the French in 1745, Austria regained control in 1748. It was again French from 1794 to 1814. Tournai was the site of...
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of the Austrian Succession and in 1745 by the siege of Tournai, they were finally completed in 1748 and the new building consecrated by the bishop of...
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Michel de Dreux-Brézé (category French military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
French forces during a stage of the Siege of Tournai in 1745. He was commander-in-chief of Flanders and Hainaut, then governor of Loudun and Île Sainte-Marguerite...
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The siege of Ostend was a two-week siege in 1745 of the port of Ostend, then in the Austrian Netherlands, during the War of Austrian Succession. A French...
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best opportunity of defeating Britain, whose financial backing was crucial to the Pragmatic Alliance. He proposed to attack Tournai, a vital link in the...
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of Versailles has four of his paintings, Prise de Menin, Siège de Fribourg, Siège de Tournai, and Siège de Mons. Battle of Fontenoy, 1745 Battle of Fontenoy...
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Noël Jourda de Vaux (category Knights of the Order of Saint Louis)
sieges of Menin and Ypres in 1744. Marshal Saxe saw him fight with distinction at the Battle of Fontenoy on 10 May 1745 and at the sieges of Tournai,...
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city from its Dutch garrison after a three-week siege. The 1745 campaign had ended with the conquest of Brussels by the French. The 1746 campaign got off...
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The siege of Mons was an engagement from 7 June to 23 July 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession. The town of Mons, then part of the Austrian...
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Joseph Marie de Boufflers (category French military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
the role during the siege of Tournai and the subsequent Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745. In 1746 he was again employed in the Army of Flanders as the king's...
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Barrier Treaty (redirect from Treaty of Den Haag (1709))
Menen Tournai Mons Dendermonde Namur The Barrier Treaties (Dutch: Barrièretraktaat/Barrièreverdrag; French: traités de la Barrière) were a series of agreements...
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Touraine Regiment (category Military units and formations of France in the American Revolutionary War)
Cassel (1677) and the Siege of Luxembourg (1684). The regiment was present at the battle of Fontenoy 1745 and the sieges of Tournai, Termonde and Ath. In 1746...
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King George's War (category 1745 in North America)
Louisbourg after a siege of six weeks. In retaliation, the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia launched the Northeast Coast Campaign (1745) against the British...
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The siege of Bergen op Zoom took place during the Austrian War of Succession, when a French army, under the command of Count Löwendal and the overall direction...
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The Fall of Ghent occurred on 15 July 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession when a 5,000 strong French force under Ulrich Frédéric Woldemar,...
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being present in 1709 at the Siege of Tournai and the Battle of Malplaquet. In 1710 Leopold succeeded to the command of the entire Prussian contingent...
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siege of Brussels took place between January and February 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession. A French army under the overall command of Maurice...
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Joseph-Laurent Malaine (category People from Tournai)
Joseph-Laurent Malaine (21 February 1745, in Tournai, Austrian Netherlands – 5 May 1809, in Paris) was a flower painter and created cartoons for tapestries...
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Second Silesian War (redirect from Second Silesian War (1744-1745))
between Prussia and Austria that lasted from 1744 to 1745 and confirmed Prussia's control of the region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland). The war was...
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Lille, Mons, and Tournai. Frederick Louis was promoted to field marshal in 1713. The duke also secured neutrality for Prussia during much of the Great Northern...
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