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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 forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627–1628.
La Rochelle at the time of the 1572–1573 siege. Since 1568, La Rochelle had been the main base of the Huguenots in France. A city of 20,000 inhabitants and a port of strategic importance with historic links to England, La Rochelle benefited from administrative autonomy (lack of seigneur, bishop, or parlement) and had become overwhelmingly Huguenot ().
The centrepiece of the conflict was the siege of La Rochelle (1627–28), in which the English Crown supported the French Huguenots in their fight against the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France. La Rochelle had become the stronghold of the French Huguenots, under its own governance.
The Allied siege of La Rochelle occurred during the Second World War in 1944–45, when Allied troops invaded France. [1] [2] La Rochelle was an important German naval base on the Atlantic for surface ships and submarines, from which U-boat campaigns were launched.
The English intervention was followed by the siege of La Rochelle. [6] Cardinal Richelieu acted as the commander of the besieging troops (during times when the King was absent). [3] Residents of La Rochelle resisted for 14 months, under the leadership of the mayor Jean Guiton and with gradually diminishing help from England. During the siege ...
An English offensive to capture the island would again take place in 1627 to support the Siege of La Rochelle, leading to the second Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré led by the Duke of Buckingham against Toiras. The conflict clearly showed the dependence of France on foreign navies. This led Richelieu to launch ambitious plans for a national fleet ...
Anna Barker, with her Yorkie Watson, at the entrance to the La Rochelle Old Port, between the Saint Nicolas Tower and the Chain Tower (1384), the site of the 1627-1628 siege commanded by Cardinal ...
Fort Louis as part of the circumvolution around La Rochelle during the 1627-1628 Siege of La Rochelle. Fort Louis was a Royal fort built just outside the walls of the Huguenot city in La Rochelle. The fort was a source of great tension between the Huguenots of La Rochelle and Louis XIII, and was perceived as a real threat to their survival.