The siege of Le Catelet, also known as the Capture of Le Catelet, took place at the stronghold of

Le Catelet Le Catelet () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Population See also *Communes of the Aisne department The following is a list of the 799 communes in the French department of Aisne. The communes ...

, in

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, between 20 and 26 June 1595, as part of the Franco-Spanish War (1595-1598) in the context of the

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.Demarsy p.8 After a short siege, the Spanish forces commanded by the new Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, Don Pedro Henríquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes ''(

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: Conde de Fuentes)'', took the French

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, compelling its garrison to surrender, as part of his offensive of 1595. A few days later the Count of Fuentes and his forces continued with the offensive and took

La Capelle La Capelle is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Its inhabitants are called Capellois (plural Capelloises). Geography La Capelle had a station on the Busigny-Hirson railway line, which operated from 1885 ...

.Knecht p.80 On 14 July they arrived at

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and laid

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to the city.

Notes

References

* Demarsy, Arthur. ''La prise de Doullens par les Espagnols en 1595.'' Paris. 1867. * Knecht, Robert J. (1996). ''The French Wars of Religion 1559–1598.'' Seminar Studies in History (2nd ed.). New York: Longman. * John H. Elliott (2001). ''Europa en la época de Felipe II, 1559-1598.'' Barcelona: Editorial Crítica. *

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. ''The Return of the Armadas: The Last Years of the Elizabethan War against Spain 1595-1603.'' Oxford University Press. 1994.

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