in front of La Rochelle. Exhausted and without hope of outside support anymore, La Rochelle finally surrendered to French Royal forces on 28 October. Following these defeats, England would end its involvement with the Thirty Years War by negotiating peace treaties with France in 1629 and with Spain in 1630, to the dismay of Protestant forces on the continent. Following these conflicts, the main port of Saint Martin, was further fortified by Vauban in 1681. See also Battle of Pont du Feneau Notes References Mark Charles Fissel War and government in Britain, 1598-1650 Manchester University Press ND, 1991 Samuel Rawson Gardiner A History of England Under the Duke of Buckingham and Charles I., 1624-1628 BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008 "The expedition to Rhé" p. 111-134 "The Siege of St. Martin's" p. 135-166 Markku Peltonen Classical humanism and republicanism in English political thought, 1570-1640 Cambridge University Press, 2004 1627 in France Saint-Martin-de-Re, Siege of Conflicts in 1627 Saint-Martin-de-Re Battles of the Thirty Years' War Saint-Martin-de-Re History of Charente-Maritime Île de Ré