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9 February – Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (born 1610) 25 March – Nicolas Robert, miniaturist and engraver (born 1614) 30 October – Michel Le Tellier, statesman (born 1603)
French–Tripolitania War (1681–1685) Location: Chios, Tripoli and Tunis. France Tripolitania; Tunis; French Victory French-Algerian War 1681–88 (1681–88) Location: Algiers. France Regency of Algiers: Peace treaty Siamese revolution of 1688 (1688) Location: Siam. Prasat Thong dynasty France. French East India Company; Phetracha and ...
This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France. For pre-987 wars, see List of wars involving ...
The War of the Camisards (French: guerre des Camisards) or the Cévennes War (French: guerre des Cévennes) was an uprising of Protestant peasants known as Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc during the reign of Louis XIV. The uprising was a response to the Edict of Fountainebleu in 1685.
The French population was dissatisfied with the terms, considering the French conquests during the war. 1763: 10 February: Seven Years' War: France and some allied and enemy nations sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years' War, resulting in a major blow on French colonial possessions. 1768: 15 May
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Areas controlled and contested by Huguenots are marked purple and blue on this map of modern France. The Huguenot rebellions, sometimes called the Rohan Wars after the Huguenot leader Henri de Rohan, were a series of rebellions of the 1620s in which French Calvinist Protestants (Huguenots), mainly located in southwestern France, revolted against royal authority.
Turenne seized the initiative and marched out to meet the Spanish and attack them the following day. The French army of some 6,000 foot and 8,000 horse [21] and 10 cannon were deployed with their left on the sea and their right on the canal. Turenne, before low tide, deployed his French-English force in two lines with cavalry on each flank.