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Events on Friday 30 June 1673 1
1673French forces capture MaastrichtVauban directs Louis XIV's siege during the Franco-Dutch WarA French army led by Louis XIV and besieged under the direction of engineer Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban captured the strategic Dutch fortress of Maastricht. Vauban's methodical parallel-trench siege tactics, used here for the first time, became the standard method of siege warfare in Europe. The city remained in French hands until the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.