Siege of Lons-le-Saunier

Name: Siege of Lons-le-Saunier
Start: 1637

1637 CE.

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The Siege of Lons-le-Saunier was a siege that took place from around 4 June to 2 July 1637 during the Ten Years' War, the Franche-Comté episode of the Thirty Years' War. It opposed the French troops of the Duke of Longueville to the Comtois regiment of Christophe de Raincourt and ended in a French victory.

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