The attack on Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, in 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession by the French army. Fortified by new works built at the beginning of the 17th century it had no second line of fortifications, nor any fortress and after seventy days of siege, the city was taken, sacked and the garrison slaughtered. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published

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