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Besieged Fortresses

Besieged Fortresses

Built at strategic points and fitted with impressive defenses, fortresses are thought to be impenetrable.
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  • The Siege of La Rochelle (1627-28) climaxes the Protestant Huguenot rebellion against the French crown and leads to the rise of the absolute monarchy.

  • French forces defend Orleans from an English army during a violent and pitiless siege between 1428 and 1429 during the Hundred Years' War.

  • English King Richard the Lionheart builds a formidable castle along France's Seine River to assert his supremacy over his rich and strategic lands in Normandy.

  • A look at the siege of Alesia, a great battle between the Gauls and Romans that brought thousands of soldiers to the plains of France and is a classic example of siege warfare.

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Built at strategic points and fitted with impressive defenses, fortresses are thought to be impenetrable.

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