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    The 1695 Siege of Namur or Second Siege of Namur took place during the Nine Years' War between 2 July and 4 September 1695. Its capture by the French in...
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  • surprise Siege of Namur (1692) by the French (under Louis XIV and Vauban) Siege of Namur (1695) by the Allies (Dutch, English and Brandenburgers) Siege of Namur...
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  • history Siege of Casale (1695) – Nine Years' War Siege of Namur (1695) – Nine Years' War Capitulation of Diksmuide (1695) – Nine Years' War Siege of Mombasa...
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    Brussels gallery seems but the precursor of larger and more powerful works, such as the Siege of Namur (1695) in the Belvedere at Vienna, where William...
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  • June 1691, then Patrick Hume, who was severely wounded at the Siege of Namur in July 1695. In reality, Major Robert Duncanson appears to have largely performed...
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  • walls of Brussels - Senne - Seventeen Provinces - Siege of Hulst (1591), Siege of Hulst (1596), Siege of Hulst (1645) - Siege of Leuven - Siege of Namur (1695)...
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    "command against the law of nature". July 12 – The Siege of Namur begins in the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium). July 15 – The siege of the Ottoman fortress...
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    William III of Orange-Nassau captured Namur only three years later in 1695 during the War of the Grand Alliance. Under the Barrier Treaty of 1709, the Dutch...
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    French Royal Army (category Military history of France)
    Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas (1695) Siege of Namur (1695) Siege of Diksmuide (1695) Siege of Ath (1697) Siege of Barcelona (1697) Battle of Chiari (1701)...
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    the siege. Three years later, in 1695, William III of Orange retook Namur. But the Dutch occupation did not last long. At the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713...
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    sham siege and nominal resistance Casale surrendered to Amadeus on 9 July 1695; by mid-September the place had been razed. In the winter of 1695–1696...
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    Menno van Coehoorn (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    then recaptured in September 1694. The focus of the 1695 Allied campaign was the second Siege of Namur. The fortifications had been strengthened by Vauban...
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  • Michael Godfrey (category 1695 deaths)
    February 1658 – 1695) was an English merchant and financier, who was one of the founders and the first deputy governor of the Bank of England. Godfrey...
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    Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kildare constituencies)
    Landen (1693), and as an engineer at the siege of Namur (1695). During this time, he absorbed the ideas of the Dutch engineer Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1740)...
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    concurrent siege of Namur. The bombardment ultimately proved to be the most destructive event in the history of Brussels, destroying a third of the buildings...
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    financially exhausted; the focus of the 1695 campaign was the Allied siege of Namur, captured by the French in 1692. By attacking garrisons like Diksmuide...
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  • Jacques-Louis Comte de Noyelles (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    Prince of Vaudémont he commanded the allied troops diverting marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy during the Siege of Namur (1695). He was...
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    François Nicolas Fagel (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    he participated with great distinction in the Siege of Namur; with 3 Dutch regiments he was in charge of the attack on the works at the St. Nicolas Gate;...
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    Columbine, the regiment won its first battle honour for the 1695 Siege of Namur. The Treaty of Ryswick ended the Nine Years War in 1697; Parliament was determined...
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    Crillon) and duke of Boufflers and named marshal of France. He was famed for his excellent defensive leadership during the sieges of Namur and Lille, next...
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  • at the Siege of Namur, 1695 (in the collection of the National Army Museum, London) The battle of the Boyne, prior to the death of the Duke of Schomberg...
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    Years' War, he supervised the capture of Namur in 1692, the major French achievement of the war, while the 1697 siege of Ath is often considered his offensive...
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    siege of Ath (15 May 1697 – 5 June 1697) was a siege of the Nine Years' War. The French stockpiled 266,000 French pounds of gunpowder for the siege and...
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    Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Dirk Maas in the RKD Watercolor of the Siege of Namur (1695) by Dirk Maas on Geheugen...
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  • Fort Knokke (category Military history of Belgium)
    Knocque was a feint attack, intended to distract the French from the Siege of Namur which followed in July. Even if the Allies had managed to widen their...
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    1693 and at the siege of Namur, where he was wounded, in July 1695 during the latter stages of the Nine Years' War. On 25 November 1695 Hamilton married...
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    of Stirling through his wife Margaret Bruce of Auchinbowie. Later as a Major in Sir Charles Graham's Regiment of Foot he fought at the Siege of Namur...
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  • Henry Lumley (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    Landen, and helped cover the escape of William III during the retreat there. He was present in at the Siege of Namur (1695), and was promoted major general...
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    August, the principal beneficiaries of his ambitions. The unsuccessful siege and bombardment of Brussels in 1695 during the Nine Years' War by French...
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    that it 'ranked only second to [the second Siege of] Namur; in its controbution to the coming peace.' The rest of the campaign saw no major actions. William...
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