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On 8 May 1659, France and Spain began negotiating terms; the death of Oliver Cromwell in September 1658 weakened England, which was allowed to observe but excluded from the talks. Although the Anglo-Spanish War was suspended after the 1660 restoration of Charles II , it did not formally end until the Treaty of Madrid (1667) .
The Treaty of the Pyrenees [1] was signed on 7 November 1659 and ended the Franco-Spanish War that had begun in 1635. [2]Negotiations were conducted and the treaty was signed on Pheasant Island, situated in the middle of the Bidasoa River on the border between the two countries, which has remained a French-Spanish condominium ever since.
Dunkirk was Spain's greatest base for privateers, and these privateers had wreaked havoc on English merchant shipping. [c] It was defended by a garrison of about 3,000 in May 1658, [14] while an English fleet of 18 ships, [15] under Edward Mountagu, blockaded the port and prevented any
France–Spain relations are bilateral relations between France and Spain, in which both share a long border across the Pyrenees, other than one point which is cut off by Andorra. As two of the most powerful kingdoms of the early modern era , France and Spain fought a 24-year war (the Franco-Spanish War ) until the signing of the Treaty of the ...
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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.
1658 in France (2 C, 3 P) H. ... 1658 in Spain (2 C, 1 P) 1658 in Sweden (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "1658 in Europe" The following 6 pages are in this category, out ...
A French army captured the port of Gravelines, then in the Spanish Netherlands, now the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. Siege operations began on 28 May 1644 and the town surrendered on 28 July. Recaptured by the Spanish in 1652, it changed hands again in 1658 and was ceded to France in the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees.