Early Modern era · 1590

Battle of Ivry

The Battle of Ivry was fought on 14 March 1590, during the French Wars of Religion. The battle was a decisive victory for Henry IV of France, leading French royal and English forces against the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne and Spanish forces under the Count of Egmont. Henry's forces were victorious and he went on to lay siege to Paris.

Battle of Ivry
Battle of Ivry · Peter Paul Rubens / Peter Snayers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
14 Mar 1590
Where
Ivry-la-Bataille
Era
Early Modern

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