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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.
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 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
Louis XVIII became King of France until his death on 16 September 1824. 1820: 13 February: Assassination of the Duke of Berry: 1821: 5 May: Death of Napoleon. 1823: April: French invasion of Spain: France started its invasion of Spain, eventually succeeding and restoring the monarchy, ending the Liberal Triennium. 1830: July
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 ...
The Italian War of 1521–1526, sometimes known as the Four Years' War, [note 3] (French: Sixième guerre d'Italie) was a part of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Francis I of France and the Republic of Venice against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Henry VIII of England, and the Papal States.
Bombing of Marseille may refer to: Italian aerial bombardments of 17 and 21 June 1940, part of the Italian invasion of France; Anglo-American aerial bombardment of 27 May 1944, part of the Bombing of France during World War II; Algerian consulate bombing in Marseille on 14 December 1973, far-right terrorist attack