Siege of Hulst (1596)

Siege of Hulst (1596)
Part of the Eighty Years' War & the Anglo–Spanish War

Engraving of the siege of Hulst of 1596 by Frans Hogenberg – collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
DateMiddle of July –18 August 1596
Location
Hulst, Zeeland, Low Countries
(present-day the Netherlands)
51°18′56.880″N 4°3′14.040″E / 51.31580000°N 4.05390000°E / 51.31580000; 4.05390000
Result Spanish victory[1][2][3]
Belligerents
Dutch Republic United Provinces
 England		 Spain Spanish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Dutch Republic Count of Solms
Dutch Republic Maurice of Nassau
Dutch Republic William Louis of Nassau-Dillenburg		 Spain Archduke Albert
Spain Manuel de Vega
Spain Luis de Velasco
Strength
Hulst: 3,700[4][5]
Relief forces: 7,000[6]		 12,000 to 15,000[7]
Casualties and losses
500 killed or wounded[8]
3,000 surrendered[8]		 1,300 to 2,000 dead[2][9]
800 to 3,000 wounded[2][5][10]
Siege of Hulst (1596) is located in Zeeland
Siege of Hulst (1596)
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Location within Zeeland
Siege of Hulst (1596) is located in Netherlands
Siege of Hulst (1596)
Siege of Hulst (1596) (Netherlands)

The siege of Hulst of 1596 took place between mid-July and August 18, 1596, at the city of Hulst, Province of Zeeland, Low Countries (present-day the Netherlands), during the Eighty Years' War, the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).[1][2][6][11] The siege was won by the Spanish forces of the Archduke of Austria. After a short siege, during which Maurice of Orange launched a failed attempt to relieve the city, the garrison of Dutch and English troops fell into Spanish hands on August 18, 1596.[10][12]

  1. ^ a b Olaf van Nimwegen. The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions 1588–1688. p.164
  2. ^ a b c d Giménez Martín p.232
  3. ^ Edmundson p 94
  4. ^ Giménez Martín p.231
  5. ^ a b Robert Fruin p.303
  6. ^ a b van Nimwegen pp 163–64
  7. ^ Motley, John Lothrop. The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Entire 1566–74. pp. 394–95.
  8. ^ a b Ward, Adolphus William (1918). Cambridge Modern History, Volume 3. Macmillan. pp. 626–28. Cambridge Modern History, Volume 3.
  9. ^ .Carlos Coloma: 1566-1637, espada y pluma de los tercios. Guill Ortega p.93
  10. ^ a b Charles Maurice Davies (1851). The History of Holland and the Dutch nation: from the beginning of the tenth century to the end of the eighteenth. G. Willis. pp. 348–49.
  11. ^ Marjolein 't Hart p.22
  12. ^ Wernham pp 81–82