Naval battle of Tarragona
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The battle of Tarragona fought between 4 and 6 July 1641, was a naval engagement of the Reapers' War in which a Spanish galley fleet led by the Duke of Fernandina attempted to break the French naval b
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Portrait of Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis, commander of the French fleet and Archbishop of Bordeaux.
Sourdis chases Spanish vessels into the port of Roses. The French admiral blockaded a number of towns and sustained several fights.
Henri de Sourdis
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Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis, 20 February 1593 to 18 June 1645, was a French naval commander and Archbishop of Bordeaux.
Naval battle of Tarragona
…at that time besieged by land by the French and Catalan armies under the French Viceroy of Catalonia. The French blockading fleet was under command of Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, and consisted both of sailing and rowing vessels. On 4 July it was engaged by the Spanish galleys, of which some managed to…
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