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The Battle of La Marfée, also known as the Battle of Sedan, took place on 6 July 1641, during the 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War, a related conflict of the Thirty Years War. It was fought near Sedan, France, on 6 July 1641, between a French army led by the Duke of Châtillon, and an Imperial-Spanish army commanded by Guillaume de Lamboy ...
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The Battle of La Marfée, also known as the Battle of Sedan, took place on 6 July 1641, during the 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War, a connected conflict of the Thirty Years War. It was fought near Sedan, France, on 6 July 1641, between a French army led by the Duke of Châtillon, and an Imperial-Spanish army commanded by Guillaume de Lamboy, supported by French rebels led by the Comte de ...
The Battle of La Marfée was a battle of the Thirty Years' War near Sedan, France on 6 July 1641, between the troops of Louis XIII under Marshall Gaspard III de Coligny and those of the Holy Roman Empire under Prince Louis de Bourbon, the Count of Soissons and Dreux & Duke Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon. In 1640, the Principality of Sedan was an independent state ...
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Bordered in the north by the Meuse and in the south by the Bar, La Marfée, which extends east as far as the Croix Piot has been the stage for many a battle. The memory of those fought during the three French-German wars (1870,1914-1918,1939-1945) has never been forgotten. Today, Noyers, on its summits, is a place of peace and reconciliation.
Louis's army was engaged by a royal French army under Gaspard de Coligny, Marshal Châtillon at Sedan, but Coligny was routed at the Battle of La Marfée outside of Sedan on 6 July 1641. Of the King's 11,000 force, 600 were killed, 5500 were taken prisoner, while the Count of Soissons' forces suffered nominal losses.
