Siege Of Valenciennes (1676–77)
Siege of Valenciennes may refer to: *Siege of Valenciennes (1567), a siege during the Eighty Years' War *Siege of Valenciennes (1656), a siege during the Franco-Spanish War *Siege of Valenciennes (1676–1677), a siege during the Franco-Dutch War *Siege of Valenciennes (1793) The siege of Valenciennes took place between 13 June and 28 July 1793, during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. The French garrison under Jean Henri Becays Ferrand was blockaded by part of the army of Prince Josias of Saxe- ...

Siege Of Valenciennes (1567)
The siege of Valenciennes took place between 14 December 1566 and 23 March 1567 at Valenciennes, then in the Habsburg Netherlands. It is sometimes considered the first siege of the Eighty Years' War. Following the ''Beeldenstorm'', which reached the city on 24 August 1566, Calvinists under the leadership of Pérégrin de La Grange and Guido de Brès (also called "Guy de Bray", the author of the 1561 ''Belgic Confession'') fortified themselves within Valenciennes' walls. The acting stadtholder of Hainaut, Philip of Noircarmes, subdued the city after months of failed negotiations, starvation, and finally an artillery bombardment. Background Valenciennes was one of the most important cities that fell to the Calvinists in 1566; even before the ''Beeldenstorm'' reached the city on 24 August 1566, the Prévost-le Comte had been driven out of the city; during the iconoclasm, the Catholic clergy were also expelled. Although the magistrate (the city council) was still Catholic, it did no ...
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Siege Of Valenciennes (1656)
The Battle of Valenciennes was fought on 16 July 1656 between the Spanish troops commanded by John Joseph of Austria and the French troops under Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, in the outskirts of the said city in the Spanish Netherlands during the Franco-Spanish War. After a period of Spanish recovery following the Peace of Münster in 1648, France went again on the offensive in 1654, having succeeded in suppressing internal rebellions, and took several towns in the province of Hainaut over the course of two years. On early 1656, Turenne was instructed by the French court to continue the offensive. He intended at first to besiege Tournai, but realising that it had been strongly reinforced by the Army of Flanders under the newly-appointed John Joseph of Austria, illegitimate son of Philip IV of Spain, he went instead to besiege Valenciennes, in the course of the Scheldt river. The defenders of the city opened locks and breached dikes to flood the surroundings an ...
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Siege Of Valenciennes (1676–1677)
The siege of Valenciennes took place from 28 February to 17 March 1677, during the Franco-Dutch War, when Valenciennes, then in the Spanish Netherlands, was attacked by a French army under the duc de Luxembourg. Over the winter of 1676 to 1677, Valenciennes and Cambrai were subjected to a tight blockade, which prevented reinforcements or supplies reaching them from the outside. French armies also benefitted from superior logistics, which allowed them to begin campaigns far earlier than their opponents. Siege operations began on 28 February, supervised by French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and the town surrendered on 17 March; Spain formally ceded it to France under the August 1678 Treaty of Nijmegen. Background In the 1667–1668 War of Devolution, France captured most of the Spanish Netherlands, and the Spanish province of Franche-Comté. Louis XIV relinquished most of these gains in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, under pressure from the Triple Allianc ...
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