Impregnable Fortress: The (Staggering) Siege of La Rochelle 1627

Get access to many documentaries on sieges, history and much more on CuriosityStream for just 14.99 a year by using code sandrhoman: https://curiositystream.com/sandrhoman On 4 August 1627 a royal French army, 11’000 strong, arrived at the Huguenot town of La Rochelle. Their arrival marked the beginning of a siege characterized by an impregnable fortress, extremely determined commanders and ingenious siege craft, manifesting above all in a 1.5 km long sea-wall, a construction seemingly impossible at its time. La Rochelle was one of the major strongholds of the Huguenots, the French Protestants, and the siege marked the climax of the reformatory struggle in France. It was the centerpiece of both the third Huguenot rebellion and the Anglo-French war of 1627-29. This is how modern historiography tells the story of the staggering siege of La Rochelle. Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/sandrhomanhistory Merch: https://teespring.com/de/stores/sandrhoman Paypal (thank you): paypal.me/SandRhomanhistory Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sandrhoman Bibliography Arcère, Louis Etienne, Histoire de la ville de La Rochelle et du pays d' Aunis, 2 vols., La Rochelle 1756-1757. Beaulieu-Persac, Philippe Prevost de, Mémoires, Paris, 1913. Clarke, Jack Alden, Huguenot Warrior. Life and Times of Henri II de Rohan 1579-1638. Duffy, C., The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, London 1979. Holt, Mack P., The French Wars of Religion 1562-1629, Cambridge 22005. Parker, Geoffrey, The Thirty Years War, London 1997. Pontis, Louis de, Memoires du sieur de Pontis qui a servi dans les armees cinquantesix ans sous les rois Henri XIV, Louis XIII et Louis XIV. 2 vols., Paris 1824. Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal duc de, Lettres, instructions diplomatiques et papiers d' etat du Cardinal de Richelieu. 8 vols., Paris 1853-1877. Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Memoires du cardinal de Richelieu. Ed. for the Societe de l'histoire de France. 10 vols, Paris 1907-1931 Romocki, Siegfried Julius von, Geschichte der Explosivstoffe: Band 1: Geschichte der Sprengstoffchemie, der Sprengtechnik und des Torpedowesens bis zum Beginn der neuesten Zeit, Berlin 1895.