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    Chartres Paris Blois Beaugency L'Epine Orléans The siege of Chartres (28 February – 15 March 1568) was a key event of the second French Wars of Religion...
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    The Siege of La Rochelle (French: Le Siège de La Rochelle, or sometimes Le Grand Siège de La Rochelle) was a result of a war between the French royal...
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    in northern India after a siege that began on October 23, 1567. February 28 – French Huguenots begin the Siege of Chartres, but fail to take the walled...
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    chanson de la ville de Chartres assiégée par le prince de Condé (or Chartres in short). This song ridiculed the failed Siege of Chartres in 1568 by the...
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    agreed with the Peace of Longjumeau in 1568. As the peace broke down, Montgommery and the Vidame de Chartres moved south from Brittany pursued by Martigues...
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    – March 1568: usually known as the "Second War", ended by the Peace of Longjumeau 10 November 1567: Battle of Saint Denis 7 April 1568: Siege of Puylaurens...
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    Catholic assaults on the cities of Sommières (led by Henri I de Montmorency) and Sancerre. Since 1568, La Rochelle had been the main base of the Huguenots in...
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    opened between the Protestants and the English on 15 August. The vidame de Chartres and a representative of Rouen were dispatched to treat with her. Elizabeth...
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    summer 1568 when the Royalist armies had threatened to cut off the Huguenot leaders, who decided to take refuge in La Rochelle. Louis Ier de Bourbon-Condé...
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    The siege of Paris (7 May – 30 August 1590) took place during the French Wars of Religion when the French Royal Army under Henry of Navarre, and supported...
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