The siege of Maastricht took place from 15 to 30 June 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672 to 1678, when a French army captured the Dutch fortress...
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– 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch...
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government of Maastricht. There was an attempt in 1634 of Spanish forces to recapture the city, but to no avail. Another Siege of Maastricht (1673) took place...
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1676 siege of Maastricht was a failed attempt by William III of Orange to take the city, which had been occupied by the French since 1673. The siege took...
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The siege of Naarden took place from 6 to 13 September 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672 to 1678, when a Dutch army captured the Dutch fortress...
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The siege of Bonn took place from 3 to 12 November 1673 in Bonn, present day Germany, during the Franco-Dutch War. Having forced the armies of Louis XIV...
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cousin with money awarded by Louis XIV for his role in the capture of Maastricht in 1673, and it was extensively upgraded. Today it is private property and...
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Regiment of the Crown (France) (redirect from Régiment de La Couronne)
(French: 90e demi-brigade de bataille) when it formed. During the Siege of Maastricht (1673), the Régiment d’Artois was renamed La Couronne (The Crown) as...
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Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban (redirect from Sebastien de Vauban)
the Reunions. The first fortification Vauban designed was the 1673 siege of Maastricht, although he was subordinate to Louis, who ranked as the senior...
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Franco-Dutch War (redirect from Quadruple Alliance (1673))
objective in 1673 was the capture of Maastricht, which controlled a key access point on the Meuse; the city surrendered on 30 June. In June 1673, the French...
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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban directed operations, using the siege parallel for the first time since it was pioneered at Maastricht in 1673; the bombardment...
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founded. 1673 - Siege of Maastricht (1673) by French forces. 1678 - Peace of Nijmegen: French vacate the city; Dutch in power. 1683 - Maastricht City Hall...
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Frederick Henry's Meuse campaign (category Sieges of the Eighty Years' War)
resulted in Maastricht falling entirely into Dutch hands. Maastricht would become one of the most important Dutch fortresses and was besieged in 1673, 1676...
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following battles and sieges: Maastricht in 1673, Seneffe, Dinant, Huy, Philippsburg, and was wounded at the second Siege of Maastricht (1676). In that year he...
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hardship came with the Capture of Maastricht by the Dutch in 1632 and the Capture by the French in 1673. After the siege of 1673, Louis XIV of France donated...
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soldiers in the army were Orangists. In 1673, under the orders of de Fariaux, he took part in the defence of Maastricht against Louis XIV and was seriously...
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de Villars. He entered the French army through the corps of pages in 1671 and distinguished himself at the age of twenty in the Siege of Maastricht in...
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Spain. France retained the Dutch stronghold of Maastricht, but withdrew from the Netherlands in 1673, additional fronts opening in the Rhineland and...
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[ʋik]; Limburgish: Wiek [wiːk˦]) is a neighbourhood[citation needed] in Maastricht, Netherlands, comprising the eastern bank of the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) in...
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A former village, Amby is now a neighborhood (part 25) of Maastricht, in the Netherlands, located about 4 km northeast of the center of the city. From...
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Sint Servaasbrug (category Bridges in Maastricht)
bridge across the river Meuse in Maastricht, Netherlands. It is named after Saint Servatius, the first bishop of Maastricht, and (despite being largely rebuilt...
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Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth in France from 1672, fighting at the Siege of Maastricht (1673) and alongside the Dutch, in 1678. He was wounded at St Denis...
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Limburg (Netherlands) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
fiefs. In 1673, Louis XIV personally commanded the siege of Maastricht by French troops. During the siege, one of his brigadiers, Charles de Batz-Castelmore...
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the Rhine under his uncle Marshal Turenne, but in 1673 he was seconded to the Siege of Maastricht. Back on the Rhine, he fought at Entzheim in 1674,...
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1678; during the Franco-Dutch War in June 1673, he took part in the assault on the key Dutch town of Maastricht. Later the same year he repulsed an attempt...
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Rampjaar (section Lynching of the De Witt brothers)
Leopold I, Brandenburg-Prussia, and Spain; this was formalised in the August 1673 Treaty of the Hague, which Denmark joined in January 1674. Following further...
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John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (redirect from Count Maurício de Nassau)
in 1668, he was appointed first field-marshal of the States Army, and in 1673, he was charged by stadtholder William III to command the forces in Friesland...
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Third Anglo-Dutch War (category Conflicts in 1673)
he faced a war of attrition on multiple fronts. In July 1673, French troops captured Maastricht; on 30 August, the Dutch agreed the Alliance of the Hague...
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Carl von Rabenhaupt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Taking part in the sieges of Bergen-op-Zoom, Groenlo and Maastricht in the Low Countries, he established his reputation in siege warfare. In 1633 he...
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Siege of Kamenets (1672) – Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76) Siege of Maastricht (1673) – Franco-Dutch War Siege of Bonn (1673) – Franco-Dutch War Siege of...
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