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and opened the double inner gate, believing victory was within their grasp. They chanted, "City captured! Forward, cavalry! Kill, kill them all to death, no mercy!" The attacked two strongholds of the city. The
Defenders drove away the French from the outer crescent. The captured French soldiers
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the French remained close but would undoubtedly try again. A French soldier came and asked for the fort to surrender, and was chased away. While this was happening the French took some citizens in the fields
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got word that the fortress had to be dismantled. On the 18th of April it even had no defences, and all the banners would leave, but the commander would stay with 25 soldiers. With the outbreak of the
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while the Dutch fought back hard shooting and trowing rocks, doing everything they could resist French invasion, The woman dressed up as man and also fought, even the children where helping.
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took place between June 25–26 when a French force of 5,000-9,000 men, under de Nancré, tried to take the fortress town of
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was in danger, and wanted to evacuate its citizens. In the evening they got word that the French left
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made a new request for reinforcements. At around 7 pm, 40 more troops arrived from the town of
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because they were so greatly outnumberd, however
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would have been around 50 at that time. On June 25 the French already reached
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1016:"Franse aanval op de stad Aardenburg d.d. 26 en 27 juni 1672"
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Commander watching the assault on
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trying to get reinforcements. The entire population of
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In the Middle of the night the French have arrived in
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and even stones were taken to the walls for defence.
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879:where begging for mercy while locked up in the
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40:The heroic defence of Aardenburg, by
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728:Detailed image of Aardenburg in 1672
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1067:Sieges involving the Dutch Republic
732:On 1 April 1672 the inhabitants of
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259:Low Countries and Lower Rhine
625:First and Second Schooneveld
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1023:Knoop, Willem Jan (1862).
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202:500-1500 killed or wounded
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1009:(in Dutch). p. 240.
772:and where on the way to
1072:Sieges involving France
1042:(in Dutch). Van Nooten.
615:Action of 12 March 1672
192:50-165 armed civilians
176:Colonel Albert Spindler
135:Claude Antoine de Dreux
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122:Commanders and leaders
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710:Assault on Aardenburg
197:Casualties and losses
21:Assault on Aardenburg
529:Conquest of Jemtland
1014:van Damme, Harold.
907:, p. 233-237.
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554:Great Sleigh Drive
1057:Conflicts in 1672
1038:Oijen, G (1872).
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841:magistrates
809: [
650:2nd Messina
630:James River
588:1st Curaçao
467:Brandenburg
455:1st Messina
443:Noirmoutier
421:Rheinfelden
411:Kochersberg
360:Upper Rhine
354:Saint-Denis
209:2-6 wounded
161: [
1051:Categories
949:Oijen 1872
905:Knoop 1862
887:References
876:drawbridge
872:Waterpoort
826:Aardenburg
774:Aardenburg
766:Aardenburg
758:Aardenburg
750:Aardenburg
734:Aardenburg
720:Background
714:Aardenburg
603:Martinique
571:Espouilles
566:Maureillas
519:Landskrona
482:Fehrbellin
279:Aardenburg
65:Aardenburg
1082:Louis XIV
985:van Damme
973:van Damme
961:van Damme
934:van Damme
845:surrender
788:from old
780:, melted
754:The Hague
655:Stromboli
549:Stralsund
534:Uddevalla
524:Marstrand
426:Ortenbach
391:Altenheim
381:Turckheim
299:Staphorst
284:Coevorden
274:Groningen
794:ramparts
690:Køge Bay
665:Bornholm
577:Americas
560:Pyrenees
504:Halmstad
472:Rathenow
438:Besançon
416:Freiburg
386:Salzbach
376:Mulhouse
371:Entzheim
366:Sinsheim
207:0 killed
182:Strength
60:Location
995:Sources
822:hostage
800:Assault
778:bullets
695:Wissant
675:Palermo
660:Augusta
620:Solebay
539:Warksow
494:Gotland
339:Cambrai
314:Seneffe
304:Naarden
289:Woerden
269:Tolhuis
264:Groenlo
881:Church
770:Deinze
762:Deinze
742:French
680:Tobago
645:Málaga
598:Acadia
432:France
334:Cassel
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100:France
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73:Result
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853:Sluis
849:mayor
817:Sluis
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786:scrap
746:Dutch
670:Ă–land
635:Texel
544:RĂĽgen
514:Malmö
477:Nauen
401:Trier
349:Ypres
344:Ghent
319:Grave
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790:iron
782:lead
740:the
708:The
509:Lund
309:Bonn
52:Date
685:Møn
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