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The Anglo-French War of 1627–1629 (French: Guerre Franco-Anglaise) was a military conflict fought between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England between 1627 and 1629. It mainly involved actions at sea. [ 3 ]
The Anglo-French conflict followed the failure of their alliance of 1624, in which England had tried to find an ally in France against the power of the Habsburgs. In 1626, France under Richelieu concluded a secret peace with Spain, and disputes arose around Henrietta Maria's household. Furthermore, France was building the power of its navy ...
Anglo-French War (1123–1135) – conflict that amalgamated into The Anarchy; Anglo-French War (1158–1189) – first conflict between the Capetian dynasty and the House of Plantagenet; Anglo-French War (1193–1199) – conflict between King Richard the Lionheart and King Philip Augustus; Anglo-French War (1202–1204) – French invasion of ...
French The Treaty of Compiègne , signed on 10 June 1624, was a mutual defence alliance between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic , for an initial period of three years. One of a series of treaties designed to isolate Spain , France agreed to subsidise the Dutch in their War of Independence in return for naval assistance, as well as ...
After three months of siege, the Marquis de Toiras and a relief force of French ships and troops managed to repel the Duke, who was forced to withdraw in defeat. [4] The encounter followed another defeat for Buckingham, the 1625 Cádiz expedition, and is considered to be the opening conflict of the Anglo-French War of 1627–1629.
The conduct of the French fleet in the two 1673 Battles of the Schooneveld was undistinguished and, in the final 1673 conflict, the Battle of the Texel, D'Estrées, either through poor seamanship, or because he had been ordered by Louis XIV to preserve the French fleet should England make peace with the Dutch, failed to engage the Dutch closely ...
The Anglo-Spanish War had been a complex and fluctuating conflict that also had connections with the Dutch Revolt, the French Wars of Religion, and the Nine Years' War in Ireland. The war by 1600 had been going on for nearly fifteen years with neither side gaining an overall benefit or a decisive advantage.
The Second Hundred Years' War is a periodization or historical era term used by some historians [1] [2] [3] to describe the series of military conflicts around the globe between Great Britain and France that occurred from about 1689 (or some say 1714) to 1815, including several separate wars such as the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the ...