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The French Royal Army was the principal land force of the Kingdom of France. It served the Bourbon dynasty from the reign of Louis XIV in the mid-17th century to that of Charles X in the 19th, with an
Louis XIV
Louis XV
The French and allied armies confronting each other at Fontenoy. The blue-clad French troops in the foreground are members of the French Guards.
French troops storming Redoubt #9 during the Siege of Yorktown
The Siege of Valenciennes, 28 February to 17 March 1677, took place during the 1672 to 1678 Franco-Dutch War. Valenciennes, then in the Spanish Netherlands, was assaulted by a French army under Luxemb
Capture of Valenciennes, 17 March 1677, Jean Alaux, 1837
Valenciennes; the remains of the Citadel