What the records say
- When
- Apr 1734 – 30 Nov 1734
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 41.10° N, 14.20° E
- Description
- 1734 siege
Siege of Capua (1734)
1734 siege
The siege of Capua was the last major military action of the War of the Polish Succession in the Kingdom of Naples. Austrian forces of the Habsburg monarchy, under the command of the Austrian Marshal Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, withstood for seven months a blockade begun in April 1734 by Spanish and French forces under Count Marsillac.
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