Siege of Ceuta (1694-1727)
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The <entity_0> (also known as the Thirty-year Siege) were a series of blockades by <entity_3> forces of the <entity_4>-held city of <entity_5> on the North African coast. The first <entity_6> began on <entity_1> and finished in 1720 when reinforcements arrived. While most of the military operations took place around the city walls (Muralles Reales), there were also small-scale penetrations by <entity_4> forces at various points on the <entity_3> coast, and the seizure of shipping in the Strait of Gibraltar. The city was placed under a second <entity_6> in 1721 until <entity_2>. In July 1695 during a dense fog – common at <entity_5> in summer – the <entity_3> troops made a surprise attack on the <entity_4> during a change of guard. On 7 August of that year Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt sent Juan Basset (a <entity_4> military commander supporting the Habsburg candidate Archduke Charles of Austria as successor to the <entity_4> throne) to <entity_5> with part of the Anglo-Dutch fleet, calling on the city to surrender in the name of the Archduke with the promise that the <entity_6> would then be over. After the loss of all <entity_4> territory in Italy, <entity_5> became a position of strategic importance in the <entity_4> defensive cordon in the Mediterranean. On <entity_2>, a reconnaissance expedition from <entity_5> confirmed that the Moroccans had left.
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