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Siege of Bergen op Zoom, a Common card
The siege of Bergen op Zoom took place during the Austrian War of Succession, when a French army, under the command of Count Löwendal and the overall direction of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, laid siege and captured the strategic Dutch border fortress of Bergen op Zoom on the border of Brabant and Zeeland in 1747.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Ranked #2,297 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Siege of Bergen op Zoom quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Siege of Bergen op Zoom card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
After seven years of ______ war, both sides in this conflict were suffering from weariness of the war.
Answer
brutal. After seven years of brutal war, both sides in this conflict were suffering from weariness of the war. From the Siege of Bergen op Zoom article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
William Bateson. William Bateson 80 · Price's Missouri Expedition 72 · Abd al-Mu'min 68 · Siege of Bergen op Zoom 65 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The fortress was defended by Dutch, Austrians, British, Hanoverians and Hessians that supported the Pragmatic Sanction.
- After seven years of brutal war, both sides in this conflict were suffering from weariness of the war.
- Although tentative peace initiatives had been put forward, neither side was yet willing to make meaningful concessions.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Siege of Bergen op Zoom article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Siege of Bergen op Zoom
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Siege of Bergen op Zoom (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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