`` Superb '' fired on the rearmost ships , setting Placing the 112-gun `` Real Carlos '' on fire and capturing Conquering the `` Saint Antoine '' .

The metropolitan operation Military_operation would be led Conquering by Col. Antoine Argoud , with French paratroopers descending on Arriving strategic airfields .

Foreign allies provided Supply financing and other assistance Assistance to both sides , with Habsburg Spain and the Duchy of Savoy supporting Supporting the Guises , and England supporting Supporting the Protestant side led by the Condés and by the Protestant Jeanne d'Albret , wife of Antoine de Bourbon , King of Navarre , and her son , Henry of Navarre .