"Siege of Amiens (1597)" Topic

"Spain under King Philip II of Spain had intervened regularly in the Wars of Religion in favour of the Catholic League against the Protestant Huguenots, most notably in the Siege of Paris 1590, the Siege of Rouen 1591, and the Battle of Craon in 1592[20] However, only in 1595 was war officially declared between the two countries by the new King Henry IV of France, who had converted to Catholicism and been received into Paris the year before to be crowned with popular support[4] From then on, the civil war began to turn against the hardliners of the Spanish supported Catholic League, including two major royal French victories over the Spanish at Fonatain-Francais and Ham in 1595 The Spanish responded to the faltering of the League and their own defeats with a great campaign that year and the next, capturing Le Catelet, Doullens, Cambrai, Calais and Ardres

In 1597, Hernando Tello Porto Carrero, the Spanish governor of the town of Doullens, proposed a plan to Archduke Albert, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands, to take Amiens the capital of Picardy by surprise[21][22] The Archduke agreed and saw the acquisition of Amiens as compensation for the recent defeat at Turnhout in Brabant by Anglo-Dutch forces led by Maurice of Nassau earlier in the year[23] He assigned 7,000 men infantry and 700 cavalry to Governor Porto Carrero[9] The plan was to hide 500 infantry and horsemen in small groups close to the city The Governor sent sixteen men dressed as peasants into the city and divided them into three groups…"
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Le Chevalier Tempete (AKA: The Flashing Blade)

Obviously thirty years later than OP – during the War of the Mantuan Succession (1628–1631)

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