High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Siege of Saint-Omer (May 24 – July 16, 1638) was a siege in the Thirty Years' War in which a French army under Gaspard III de Coligny, Marechal de Chatillon, laid siege to the Spanish city of Saint-Omer, defended by a small garrison in command of Lancelot of Grobbendonck, Baron of Wezemaal. Despite several initial successes in the capture of the minor forts around Saint-Omer, on the night of 8/9 June a Spanish relief army under Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano surprised Chatillon's troops and established a small fort in middle of the French lines. An entire army corps under Marechal de La Force was ordered to move towards Saint-Omer to support Chatillon siege, but on July 12 a further Spanish-Imperial force commanded by Ottavio Piccolomini entered Saint-Omer, resolving the French marshalls to withdraw. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном...

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