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Siege and bombardment reports from Belian and Quency
From the Hague and Paris courants we learn the siege of Quency by Villars is ongoing with 75 battalions and 11 squadrons blockading the town. Besiegers prepare batteries, while the garrison mounts defenses amid heavy French artillery and mortar fire.
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Valenciennes
Cambray Gate
Ivoy
Landrecy
Quency
Mormale
M. Villars
Sieur de
Cambray
Hapre
Abscon
Marquette
Rock
Brussels
Hague
Marshal de Villars
Belian
Maubeuge
Sambre
Martha Villars
Berlemont
Bouchain
Marchiennes
Selle
Paris
Madrid
France
Spain
England
Saragossa
Catalonia
Segra
Cervera
Staremberg
Count de Atalaya
Barcelona
Thicher
Mary-Elizabeth
Grenoble
Duke of
Berwick
Queiras
Piemont