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The 23/24 attacks scored some direct hits on gun positions in the Marseille area and roaming fighter bombers took on targets of opportunity. [2]: 125 On 21 August the approaches to Marseille were cut, isolating the Marseille garrison. [7] Units closed in on the suburbs. The Germans blew up the Marseille Transporter Bridge to try to block the port.
1423 - Sack of Marseille [fr; es] by the forces of Aragón, led by Alfonso V. [2] 1453 - Fortifications constructed. 1481 - Marseille united with Provence. 1486 - Marseille becomes part of France. [1] 1524 - Town besieged by forces of Francis I. [2] 1531 - Château d'If built. 1542 - Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins (church) dedicated.
The 1536 Italian War of 1536–1538, Spanish invasion of France The 1562 English expedition to France , led by England during the French Wars of Religion The 1746 War of the Austrian Succession , Austria-Italian forces supported by the British navy attempted to invade southern France
Over the course of the 18th century, the port's defences were improved [30] and Marseille became more important as France's leading military port in the Mediterranean. In 1720, the last Great Plague of Marseille , a form of the Black Death , killed 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces. [ 31 ]
The Marseille roundup was the systematic deportation of the Jews of Marseille in the Old Port between 22 and 24 January 1943 under the Vichy regime during the German occupation of France. Assisted by the French police , directed by René Bousquet , the Germans organized a raid to arrest Jews.
English invasion of France (1230) F. Battle of France; ... Battle of Marseille; O. Operation Overlord; S. Sack of Strasbourg (451) Siege of Autun; T. Battle of Toulon ...
Marseille [a] (French: Marseille; Provençal Occitan: Marselha) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea , near the mouth of the Rhône river.
22 January – Round up of Marseille, organized by Nazi Germany, begins: French police carry out a raid in the Old Port to arrest Jews. 24 January – Round up of Marseille ends with 30,000 people expelled from their neighborhood and 2,000 Jews eventually sent to the extermination camps.