What the records say
- When
- 22 May 1697 – 5 Jun 1697
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 50.62° N, 3.77° E
- Description
- Successful siege by French forces of a Grand Alliance army based in Ath, Spanish Netherlands during the Nine Years' War
Siege of Ath (1697)
1697 siege during the Nine Years' War
The siege of Ath was a siege of the Nine Years' War. The French stockpiled 266,000 French pounds of gunpowder for the siege and used less than half of it. Consumption of other material amounted to 34,000 pounds of lead, 27,050 cannonballs, 3,400 mortar bombs, 950 grenades and 12,000 sandbags. The financial costs were 89,250 French livres.
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