Siege of Ath

Quand

22 mai 1697 – 5 juin 1697

Type

Siège

Coordonnées

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

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.

Source : Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Lire l’article

• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Page source
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · l’appelle « осада Ата »Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Page source

• Nine Years' War27 sept. 1688 · Guerre