Arras

A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer · 1881 · p. 1

(Northeast France). The ancient At rebates; conquered by Cæsar in 50 B.C. ; captured and sacked by the Vandals in 407; captured by the Normans in 880; besieged by Charles VI. in 1414; captured by Louis XI.; held by the Austrians from 1493 till 1640, when it was taken by Louis XIII.; besieged by the Spaniards in 1654.