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The Fortress of Salses



In 1496, the French army plunders the Spanish fronteer village and castle of Salses. To stop them in the future, the king Ferdinand the Catholic decides to build the fortress of Salses. In 1503, the fortress resists to a first siege, although it was not even finished. After a century of peace, brought by the treaty signed in 1544 between Charles Quint and François I, the fortress is sieged three times during the 30 Years War, then it's finally conquered by the French in 1642. After the Treaty of Pyrénées signed in 1659, the zone of Roussillon becomes a French territory and thus the fortress is now too far from the new fronteer to be useful. It becomes a historical monument in 1886.

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2009-02-18 [Easterling]: Well... you're right, but still...

2009-02-19 [Chrysilla]: tsk tsk tsk, Trennie, don't be mean to the girls!

2009-02-19 [Trennas]: i wasnt being mean, i was stating a hypothetical scenario :p

2009-02-19 [Chrysilla]: *spanks*

2009-02-19 [Easterling]: Is spanking realistic in a french siege scenario?

2009-02-19 [Chrysilla]: no, but it is in this scenario where boys say mean things to girls xD

2009-02-19 [Easterling]: No this is a girl power wiki! xD

2009-02-19 [Easterling]: (But he didn't say anything mean to me, Denisa.)

2009-02-20 [Chrysilla]: Yes he did >.<

2009-02-20 [Trennas]: no, i didn't! you were the one bringing up the siege, i was just elaborating.. geez.. o.O

2009-02-22 [Easterling]: Who wins in this siege, by the way? Do you know the history?

2009-02-22 [Chrysilla]: Well the first siege was won by the owners of the fortress, the Spanish. If I remember right what the guide said, the French won the second one by some surprise attack and made a huge mistake: they were in a fortress, they were many, and they forgot that fortresses are used to be sieged. So they had no provisions of food and they got sieged by the Spanish, so they gave in after a month or so. After the last siege, the fortress became French.

2009-02-22 [Trennas]: nonetheless, chances of dying during either siege were considerable to say the least :p

2009-02-22 [Chrysilla]: Yeah, they had used "modern" (as in "post-middleage" xD) concepts to build it, it was quite a good shelter :) You should see the thickness of the outside walls, 10m at the base and 6m at the top O.O

2009-02-22 [Easterling]: So, are we playing the first or the last siege?

2009-02-23 [Chrysilla]: I dunno, do we speak more French or more Spanish here?
-> speaks French, but only a little Spanish
So that is French 1, Spanish 0. Anyone else?

2009-02-23 [Trennas]: i speak neither:p

2009-02-23 [Easterling]: Yo hablo un poco espanol, et un peu de francais. But I tend to mix them together... :P

2009-02-23 [Chrysilla]: Then it's up to you to chose your sides :p

2009-02-23 [Trennas]: or be a two-tongued double agent!

2009-02-23 [Easterling]: B-) A double agent, c'est moi!

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