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By the start of the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years' War, a sizeable population of Huguenot descent lived in the British colonies, and many participated in the British defeat of New France in 1759–1760. [136]
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598.Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1]
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 Huguenots responded by establishing independent political and military structures, establishing diplomatic contacts with foreign powers, and openly revolting against central power. The Huguenot rebellions came after two decades of internal peace under Henry IV, following the intermittent French Wars of Religion of 1562–1598.
While not being in Kent, the Huguenot community at Rye interacted primarily with those in Kent, and a large number of Huguenots migrated to towns in Kent. By May 1562, roughly 500 Huguenots had arrived from France and in that month two more ships from Dieppe, filled with refugees, arrived. [13]
The persecution of Huguenots under Louis XV refers to hostile activities against French Protestants between 1715 and 1774 ... While the kingdom's laws did not change ...
The Battle of Dreux was fought on 19 December 1562 between Catholics and Huguenots. The Catholics were led by Anne de Montmorency while Louis I, Prince of Condé, led the Huguenots.
The flight of the Huguenots in southern France caused outright war in the Alpine ... At the start of the Nine Years' War the French fleet had 118 rated vessels and a ...