Siege of Saint-Omer

When

24 May 1638 – 16 Jul 1638

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

50.75° N, 2.26° E

Description

siege in the thirty years' war, 1638

1638 battle of the Thirty Years' War

The siege of Saint-Omer was a siege in the Thirty Years' War in which a French army under Gaspard III de Coligny, Maréchal de Châtillon, laid siege to the Flemish city of Saint-Omer, defended by a small garrison in command of Lancelot II Schetz, count of Grobbendonck.

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