The siege of Bergen op Zoom took place during the Austrian War of Succession, when a French army, under the command of Count Löwendal and the overall direction of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, laid siege a
The assault on Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom in 1747
Ulrich Frédéric Woldemar, Count of Lowendal
French soldier of the Régiment de Normandie 1740s
The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740 to 1748, was a conflict between the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King
Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1747)
…The siege of Bergen op Zoom took place during the Austrian War of Succession, when a French army, under the command of Count Löwendal and the overall direction of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, laid siege and captured the strategic…
Left to right: Capture of the Nuestra Señora de Covadonga (20 April 1743) Fontenoy (11 May 1745) Hohenfriedberg (4 June 1745) Siege of Bergen op Zoom (14 July – 18 September 1747)
Maria Theresa, whose succession was the proximate cause of the war
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, who entered the war by the September Treaty of Worms
Louis XV by Maurice Quentin de La Tour