Siege of Gravelines (1644)
1644 siege during the Franco-Spanish War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 1644 siege of Gravelines took place during the 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War. A French army captured the port of Gravelines, then in the Spanish Netherlands, now the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France.
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Siege of Gravelines | |||||||
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Part of 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War | |||||||
Siege of Gravelines, 1644 by Atlas van Loon | |||||||
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France | Spain | ||||||
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Gaston, duc d'Orléans La Meilleraye de Gassion | Francisco de Melo | ||||||
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20,000 | 2,200 [1] | ||||||
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Unknown | Unknown |
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Siege operations began on 28 May 1644 and the town surrendered on 28 July. Recaptured by the Spanish in 1652, it changed hands again in 1658 and was ceded to France in the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees.