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The siege of Dunkirk in 1658 was a military operation by France and the Commonwealth of England intended to capture the fortified port city of Dunkirk, Spain's greatest privateering base, from a Spanish garrison strengthened with English Royalists and French Fronduers.
Plant, David (25 June 2008), The Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of the Dunes, 1658, British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website, archived from the original on 15 January 2018 better source needed] Ramsay, Andrew Michael (1735), The history of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount de Turenne, Marshal of France , vol. II, London, pp. 184 , 499 –500 .
The fourth siege of Badajoz took place from July to October 1658 during the Portuguese Restoration War.It was an attempt by a huge Portuguese army under the command of Joanne Mendes de Vasconcelos, governor of Alentejo, to capture the Spanish city of Badajoz, which was the headquarters of the Spanish Army of Extremadura.
The Battle of the Dunes (1658) was a battle of the Franco-Spanish War and Anglo-Spanish War fought near Dunkirk in the Spanish Netherlands between the Spanish army and the allied armies of France and the Commonwealth of England
The Battle of Rio Nuevo took place between 25 and 27 June 1658 [a] on the island of Jamaica between Spanish forces under Cristóbal Arnaldo Isasi and English forces under governor Edward D'Oyley. In the battle lasting over two days the invading Spanish were routed. It is the largest battle to be fought in Jamaica. [3]
The Anglo-Spanish War was a conflict between the English Protectorate and Spain between 1654 and 1660. It was driven by the economic and religious rivalry between the two countries, with each side attacking the other's commercial and colonial interests in various ways, such as privateering and naval expeditions.
14 June – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): Battle of the Dunes – a French and English army defeats the Spanish in the Spanish Netherlands. [1] 25–27 June – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Rio Nuevo – a Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English. 30 August – hurricane storms in southern England, the worst for ...
That expanded the scope of the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660), and France withdrew support for the exiled Charles II of England, whose supporters joined the Spanish as a result. [48] After the Anglo-French capture of Dunkirk in June 1658, Philip requested a truce, which Mazarin refused, but once again success proved illusory.