
Built at strategic points and fitted with impressive defenses, fortresses are thought to be impenetrable.
Built at strategic points and fitted with impressive defenses, fortresses are thought to be impenetrable.
The Siege of La Rochelle (1627-28) climaxes the Protestant Huguenot rebellion against the French crown and leads to the rise of the absolute monarchy.
French forces defend Orleans from an English army during a violent and pitiless siege between 1428 and 1429 during the Hundred Years' War.
English King Richard the Lionheart builds a formidable castle along France's Seine River to assert his supremacy over his rich and strategic lands in Normandy.