What the records say
- When
- 25 May 1658 – 24 Jun 1658
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 51.04° N, 2.38° E
- Description
- 1658 military operation in the Franco-Spanish and Anglo-Spanish wars
Siege of Dunkirk (1658)
Military operation in the Franco-Spanish and Anglo-Spanish wars
The siege of Dunkirk in 1658 was a military operation by France and the Commonwealth of England intended to capture the fortified port city of Dunkirk, Spain's greatest privateering base, from a Spanish garrison strengthened with English Royalists and French Fronduers.
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