Charente is a French department that was established in 1790 based on geographic criteria, the upper and middle basin of the Charente River, and historical...

departments of Haute-Vienne, Charente, Vienne and Charente-Maritime. The river flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Rochefort. The Charente was described...

Charente (French: [ʃaʁɑ̃t] ; Saintongese: Chérente; Occitan: Charanta [tʃaˈɾantɔ]) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine,...

modern département of Creuse and the northern half of Haute Vienne. La Marche first appeared as a separate fief about the middle of the 10th century, when...

formed a duchy extending from the Charente River to the Pyrenees mountains. This duchy was held as a fief on the terms of homage to the French kings and...

brother Richard of Cornwall and their stepfather Hugh X of Lusignan. The battle was fought on the bridge built over the river Charente, a point of strategic...

War. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415154581. Sturdy, David (2002). Fractured Europe: 1600–1721 (Blackwell History of Europe). Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0631205128....

southwestern coast of France. Named after the river Charente, its prefecture is La Rochelle. As of 2019, it had a population of 651,358 with an area of 6,864 square...

Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19399-0. "Poitou". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed...

four-fifths of the historical Saintonge province is within the modern département of Charente-Maritime. Most of the other fifth is in Charente. A small section...

a commune in the Charente department, southwestern France. Administratively, the commune of Cognac is a subprefecture of the Charente department. The name...

(French: [onis, oni]) is a historical province of France, situated in the north-west of the department of Charente-Maritime. Its historic capital is La Rochelle...

democracy. p. 275ff. ISBN 1-888363-54-1. Zinn, Howard (1990). The politics of history: with a new introduction. p. 266. ISBN 9780252061226. "La Rochelle Official...

and viticulture. The geography and natural resources of Périgord make it a region rich in history and wildlife, and the newly created Parc Naturel Régional...

in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime...

Soyaux Angoulême XV Charente is a French rugby union club from Angoulême, currently playing in the second level of the country's professional rugby system...

Saintonge became part of Charente-Inférieure, one of the 83 departments organized by the new government. This was renamed as Charente-Maritime in 1941, during...

made in the départements of Charente, Charente-Maritime, and (to a lesser extent) Dordogne. While popular within its region of production, it is less well...

crossed the Charente by the bridge at Châteauneuf on the night of 12 March. With him were 27000 men for this surprise attack on the rearguard of the Huguenot...

from c. 350 BC that was found in a cave near Agris, Charente, France, in 1981. It is a masterpiece of Celtic art, and would probably have been used for...

of several hundred men from the nearby English garrisons of Taillebourg and Tonnay-Charente assaulted the French forces at their rear. Over six hundred...

French Wars of Religion 1559–1598 (Seminar Studies in History) ISBN 0-582-28533-X Portions of this article are based on a translation of the article Siège...

the southwest coast of France. It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprised four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres...

Press ND, 1991 ISBN 0-7190-2887-6 Samuel Rawson Gardiner A History of England Under the Duke of Buckingham and Charles I., 1624-1628 BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008...

Manning p.115 The history of France Eyre Evans Crowe, pp. 454–455 The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629, p. xiii by Mack P. Holt – History - 2005 p. 13 [1]...

Capture of Ré island by Royal troops in 1625, and the 1627-1628 Siege of La Rochelle. French Wars of Religion Huguenot rebellions A History of the Huguenots...

p.24ff Louis: The French Prince who Invaded England Catherine Hanley pp.202-3 History of the rise of the Huguenots of France Henry Martyn Baird p.270...

Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (French:Bataille navale de Saint-Martin-de-Ré) took place on 27 October 1622, between the Huguenot fleet of La Rochelle...

The siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély (French: siège de Saint-Jean-d'Angély) was a siege (military blockade), accomplished by the young French king Louis XIII...

ammunition. French Wars of Religion Huguenot rebellions A History of the Huguenots by William Shergold Browning, p.237 [1] A History of the Huguenots by William...