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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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    The Allied siege of La Rochelle occurred during the Second World War in 1944–45, when Allied troops invaded France. La Rochelle was an important German...
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    La Rochelle (UK: /ˌlæ rɒˈʃɛl/, US: /ˌlɑː roʊˈʃɛl/, French: [la ʁɔʃɛl] ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: La Rochéle) is a city on the west coast of France and a...
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    The siege of La Rochelle of 1572–1573 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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  • Battle of La Rochelle or Siege of La Rochelle may refer to: Siege of La Rochelle (1224) between the Capetians and the Plantagenets Battle of La Rochelle (1372)...
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    The siege of La Rochelle of 1224 was the decisive engagement in the campaign between the Capetians and the Plantagenets for control of Poitou. French royal...
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    of the city. The threat of a future siege on the city of La Rochelle was obvious, both to Soubise and the people of La Rochelle. In February 1625, Soubise...
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  • Anne de Rohan (poétesse) (category House of Rohan)
    Catherine de Parthenay were principal figures at the famous Siege of La Rochelle. At the end of which, the Catholic army imprisoned Anne and her mother at...
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    Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England between 1627 and 1629. It mainly involved actions at sea. The centrepiece of the conflict was the siege of La Rochelle...
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    of Buckingham, to capture the French fortress-city of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, on the isle of Ré (near La Rochelle), in 1627. After three months of siege,...
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    from its base in Kiel. La Pallice was subject to the allied siege of La Rochelle in 1944–45, which ended with the capitulation of Germany. The large submarine...
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    Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres (category Military personnel of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659))
    celebrated siege of La Rochelle, where he was taken prisoner. In 1629 he was made Marechal de camp, and served in the fighting on the southern frontiers of France...
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    island of Ré. He commanded at La Rochelle during the famous Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628). According to his brother, the failure of the defence and of the...
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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 (1572–1573), organized by the Duke of Anjou, future Henry III of France...
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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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    Catherine de Parthenay (category House of Rohan)
    was probably at the signing of the Edict of Nantes (1598). She was a principal figure at the famous Siege of La Rochelle, for which the Catholic army...
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    François de Bassompierre (category Court of Henry IV of France)
    Huguenot rising of 1621–22 won for him the dignity of marshal of France. He was with the army of the king during the siege of La Rochelle in 1628, and in...
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    Charles de Balsac, baron de Dunes (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    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 Commonwealth...
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    Montgomery 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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    Henri-Paul Motte (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. He won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). He is best known for his work of the Siege of La Rochelle, a depiction...
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    took part in the Siege of La Rochelle as well as in the defence of the Isle of Ré and Isle of Oléron against the English under the Duke of Buckingham, and...
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    The Battle of La Rochelle was a naval battle fought on 22 and 23 June 1372 between a Castilian fleet commanded by the Castilian Almirant Ambrosio Boccanegra...
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    The Three Musketeers (category Cultural depictions of Anne of Austria)
    return to the Siege of La Rochelle, Richelieu's Guards arrest D’Artagnan. D'Artagnan gives the Cardinal the secret order absolving the bearer of any responsibility...
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    of their historic rights. A Polish delegation went to La Rochelle to meet with Henry, who was leading the Siege of La Rochelle. Henry left the siege following...
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    François d'Espinay (category French people of the French Wars of Religion)
    his participation in the siege of La Rochelle in 1573 in which he was injured. When the king's brother Anjou was elected king of the Commonwealth he travelled...
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  • – Livonian Crusade Siege of La Rochelle (1224) Siege of Tartu (1224) – Livonian Crusade Siege of Jaén (1225) – Reconquista Siege of Avignon (1226) – Albigensian...
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  • duchess of Aquitaine. 1209 - Lantern Tower founded. 1219 – La Rochelle besieged during the Albigensian Crusade.(fr) 1224 – Siege of La Rochelle (1224)...
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  • 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 granted...
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  • intelligence corps. Rossignol repeated his swift decipherment of Huguenot messages at the siege of La Rochelle in 1628, helping to inform French strategy and, according...
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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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