Siege of Gravelines

Siege of Gravelines
Part of 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War

Siege of Gravelines, 1644 by Peter Snayers
Date28 May to 28 July 1644
Location
Gravelines, Nord region
Result French victory
Belligerents
 France Spain
Commanders and leaders
Gaston of Orléans
Charles de La Porte
Jean de Gassion		 Francisco de Melo
Strength
20,000 2,200
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

The Siege of Gravelines, May to July 1644, took place during the 1635–1659 Franco-Spanish War. A French army captured the port of Gravelines, then in the Spanish Netherlands, now the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France.

Siege operations began on 28 May 1644 and the town surrendered on 28 July. Recaptured by the Spanish in 1652, it changed hands again in 1658 before being ceded to France permanently in the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees.

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