Siege Of Roses (1794–95)
Siege of Roses or Siege of Rosas may refer to: * Siege of Roses (1645), the French captured the port from Spain during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) * Siege of Roses (1693), the French quickly seized the city from the Spanish in the Nine Years' War * Siege of Roses (1719), occurred during the War of the Quadruple Alliance * Siege of Roses (1794-1795), the French captured the city from Spain during the War of the Pyrenees * Siege of Roses (1808), the French took the port from the Spanish in the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...

Siege Of Roses (1693)
Siege of Roses or Siege of Rosas may refer to: * Siege of Roses (1645), the French captured the port from Spain during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) * Siege of Roses (1693), the French quickly seized the city from the Spanish in the Nine Years' War * Siege of Roses (1719), occurred during the War of the Quadruple Alliance * Siege of Roses (1794-1795), the French captured the city from Spain during the War of the Pyrenees * Siege of Roses (1808), the French took the port from the Spanish in the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...

Nine Years' War
The Nine Years' War was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between Kingdom of France, France and the Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), Grand Alliance. Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America. Louis XIV of France emerged from the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 as the most powerful monarch in Europe. Using a combination of aggression, annexation, and quasi-legal means, he then set about extending his gains to strengthen France's frontiers, culminating in the 1683 to 1684 War of the Reunions. The Truce of Ratisbon guaranteed these new borders for twenty years, but concerns among European Protestant states over French expansion and Edict of Fontainebleau, anti-Protestant policies led to the creation of the Grand Alliance, headed by William III of England, William of Orange. In September 1688 ...
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Siege Of Roses (1719)
Siege of Roses or Siege of Rosas may refer to: * Siege of Roses (1645), the French captured the port from Spain during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) * Siege of Roses (1693), the French quickly seized the city from the Spanish in the Nine Years' War * Siege of Roses (1719), occurred during the War of the Quadruple Alliance * Siege of Roses (1794-1795), the French captured the city from Spain during the War of the Pyrenees * Siege of Roses (1808), the French took the port from the Spanish in the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...

War Of The Quadruple Alliance
The War of the Quadruple Alliance, 1718 to 1720, was a conflict between Spain and a coalition of Austria, Great Britain, France, and Savoy, joined in 1719 by the Dutch Republic. Most of the fighting took place in Sicily and Spain, with minor engagements in North America. The Spanish-backed Jacobite rising of 1719 in Scotland is considered a related conflict. Seeking to recover territories ceded under the 1713 Peace of Utrecht, Spanish troops landed on Sicily in July 1718. On 2 August, Austria, France, Britain and Savoy formed the Quadruple Alliance, and on 11 August the Royal Navy defeated a Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Passaro. Austrian land forces retook Sicily in October 1719, while the British sacked Vigo, forcing its leaders to seek peace terms. The Treaty of The Hague (1720) restored the position prior to 1717, Savoy and Austria exchanging Sardinia and Sicily. Background Under the 1713 Peace of Utrecht that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, Spain ceded Sardin ...
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Siege Of Roses (1794-1795)
Siege of Roses or Siege of Rosas may refer to: * Siege of Roses (1645), the French captured the port from Spain during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) * Siege of Roses (1693), the French quickly seized the city from the Spanish in the Nine Years' War * Siege of Roses (1719), occurred during the War of the Quadruple Alliance * Siege of Roses (1794-1795), the French captured the city from Spain during the War of the Pyrenees * Siege of Roses (1808), the French took the port from the Spanish in the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...

War Of The Pyrenees
The War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the Pyrenees, Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted Revolutionary France against the kingdoms of History of Spain (1700–1810), Spain and Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal from March 1793 to July 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars. The war was fought in the eastern and western Pyrenees, at the French port of Toulon, and at sea. In 1793, a Spanish army invaded Roussillon in the eastern Pyrenees and maintained itself on French soil through April 1794. The French Revolutionary Army drove the Spanish Army back into Catalonia and inflicted a serious defeat in November 1794. After February 1795, the war in the eastern Pyrenees became a stalemate. In the western Pyrenees, the French began to win in 1794. By 1795, the French army controlled a portion of northeast Spain. The war was brutal in at least two ways. The Committee of Public Safety dec ...
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Siege Of Roses (1808)
The siege of Roses or siege of Rosas from 7 November to 5 December 1808 saw an Imperial French corps led by Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr invest a Catalan and Spanish garrison commanded by Peter O'Daly. After a siege lasting a month in which the haven and town of Roses was captured and the nearby Trinity Castle invested by over 13,000 French and Italian infantry, artillery and cavalry with heavy siege trains on the hills above, the citadel was surrendered to the Napoleonic forces. Roses (Rosas) is located northeast of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The action occurred during the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars. In the summer and fall of 1808, an Imperial French corps under Guillaume Philibert Duhesme was isolated in Barcelona by a 24,000-man Spanish army led by Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu. With 23,000 men, Gouvion Saint-Cyr moved from the French border to relieve Duhesme's troops. The first obstacle to Gouvion Saint-Cyr's mission was the haven of Roses defended by a ...
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