For the 1627 siege by Buckingham against Toiras, see Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré The Recovery of Ré Island was accomplished by the army of Louis XIII in September 1625, against the troops of the Protestant admiral Soubise and the Huguenot forces of La Rochelle, who had been occupying the Island of Ré since February 1625 as part of the Huguenot rebellions. Wikipedia