Siege of Arras
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The siege of Arras took place from 22 June to 9 August 1640, during the Franco-Spanish War that had begun in 1635, a connected conflict of the Thirty Years' War. A French army besieged the Spanish-held town of Arras, capital of the province of Artois, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, which surrendered after holding out for 48 days.
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1640 Siege of Arras
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| event | armed conflict | Battle of Lorette Hill | battle | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | Battle of Monchy-au-Bois | battle | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 1194 | Siege of Arras | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1640 | Siege of Arras | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1646 | Siege of Lens | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1648 | Battle of Lens | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1654 | Battle of Arras | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1667 | Siege of Douai | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1710 | Siege of Douai | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1712 | Siege of Douai | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1793 | Battle of Caesar's Camp | battle, Kingdom of Great Britain | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1871 | Battle of Bapaume (1871) | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Ovillers-la-Boisselle in World War I | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of Arras | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of La Bassée | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of Givenchy | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Arras | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Second Battle of Artois | German Empire, French Third Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Festubert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Hébuterne | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Third Battle of Artois | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Loos | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Action of the Hohenzollern Redoubt | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Hohenzollern Redoubt | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Gas attack at Hulluch | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Bazentin Ridge | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Delville Wood | British Empire, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Capture of Ovillers | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Mouquet Farm | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Ginchy | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Flers–Courcelette | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle, Canadian Expeditionary Force | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Capture of Martinpuich | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Morval | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Thiepval Ridge | J. R. R. Tolkien, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Le Transloy | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Capture of Regina Trench | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of the Ancre | battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Attack on Noreuil | offensive | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Arras | British Empire, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Vimy Ridge | Canada, German Empire, battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Hill 70 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Second Battle of Bapaume | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Battle of the Scarpe | Canada, British Empire, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Battle of Havrincourt | German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle, Dominion of New Zealand | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Battle of the Canal du Nord | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1940 | Battle of Arras | United Kingdom, battle | Wikidata |
| site | bunker | 1917 | Casemate à mitrailleuse 526 | bunker | Wikidata |
| site | fort | Fort de Scarpe | destroyed building or structure, fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Hohenzollern Redoubt | redoubt | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Notre Dame de Lorette Museum | military museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | 1986 | South African Delville Wood Commemorative Museum | Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery, military museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 2008 | Carrière Wellington | military museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 2012 | Bullecourt 1917, Jean and Denise Letaille museum | military museum | Wikidata |
| site | tower | donjon de Bailleulmont | keep | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | Tour des Dames | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | Tour Saint-Ignace | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | Siege of Arras (1640) - engraved plan by Melchior Tavernier | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Wahrer Grundtriß der Vesten Statt Arras, und wie solche durch Ludwig den XIII. König von Franckreÿch und Navarra Belägert und Erobert worden, Anno 1640 - btv1b53211591g (1 of 2) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Siege of Arras (1640) - engraved plan by Melchior Tavernier | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Ruitergevecht bij Arras, 1640 La defaicte des Espognols a L'attaque du Siege d'Arras l'Arrivee du Convoy et la Reddition de la ville d'Arras a l'Obeissance du Roy (titel op object), RP-P-OB-81.485 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Le chat du siège d'Arras | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Le chat du siège d'Arras | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Siège d'Arras 1640 | Commons | ||




