15 March 1691Investment of MonsLouis Francois Boufflers
Boufflers begins the French investment of Mons before the main siege works are opened.
Historical records for France in 1691, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Boufflers begins the French investment of Mons before the main siege works are opened.
Catinat captures Villefranche during the French offensive against Savoy's Mediterranean territories.
Louis XIV arrives before Mons and personally oversees the principal French operation of the 1691 campaign.
Vauban directs the systematic siege works and artillery attack against Mons.
Luxembourg commands the covering army that prevents the Allies from relieving the French siege of Mons.
Catinat's campaign secures Nice after the citadel capitulates, extending French control along the Savoyard coast.
Louis XIV receives the successful conclusion of the siege as the Mons garrison marches out under agreed terms.
Bulonde raises the siege of Cuneo as Allied relief forces approach, leaving French guns and supplies behind.
Feuquieres participates in the unsuccessful French attempt to seize Cuneo in Piedmont.
The Marquis de St Ruth (General Charles Chalmont), the French Jacobite general, moved too slowly to save Athlone, as he had to gather his troops from their quarters and raise new ones from rapparee bands and the levies of Irish landowners
A stunning defeat of the fleeing Franco-Irish followed in the confusion and darkness, with some 4000 corpses left on the field.
An immediate attack was resolved on, and, after a severe and at one time doubtful contest, the crisis was precipitated by the fall of the Franco-Irish leader, the French General Charles Chalmont, Marquis de St Ruth, after which his disorganized forces fled in the ensuing
As St Ruth tried to rally his cavalry on the left to counter-attack and drive the Williamite horse back, he was decapitated by a cannon ball, at this point, the Jacobite position collapsed very quickly.
Both armies were about 20,000 men strong, the soldiers of St Ruths army were mostly Irish Catholic, while Ginkels were English, Scottish, Danish, Dutch and French Huguenot (members of William IIIs League of Augsburg) and Ulster Protestants.
Ginkel marched through Ballinasloe, on the main road towards Limerick and Galway, before he found his way blocked by St Ruth's army at Aughrim on the 12th of July 1691.
The Battle of Aughrim all but decided the war in the Williamite favour.
darkness of the early-morning of 13 July.
Both armies were about 20,000 men strong, the soldiers of St Ruths army were mostly Irish Catholic, while Ginkels were English, Scottish, Danish, Dutch and French Huguenot (members of William IIIs League of Augsburg) and Ulster Protestants
Luxembourg launches a rapid cavalry attack that defeats a much larger Allied force near Leuze.
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