Siege of Schenckenschans (1599)

Siege of Schenkenschans
Part of the Eighty Years' War & the Anglo–Spanish War

Siege of Schenkenschans – print by Frans Hogenberg
Date28 April – 2 May 1599
Location
Schenkenschanz
(present-day Germany)
Result Dutch and English victory[1]
Belligerents
England England
 Dutch Republic		  Spain
Commanders and leaders
Dutch Republic Maurice of Orange Spain Francisco de Mendoza
Spain Frederik van den Bergh
Strength
900 (Schenkenschans)
800 cavalry (relief)		 17,000 troops
2,000 cavalry
Casualties and losses
Light 400

The siege of Schenkenschans was a siege that took place from 28 April to 2 May 1599 as part of the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War.[1] Schenkenschans was garrisoned largely by English troops and was besieged by a Spanish force led by Francisco de Mendoza. The siege failed with losses and the Spanish were forced to retreat when a relief force arrived.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b Davies, Charles Maurice (1851). The History of Holland and the Dutch Nation: From the Beginning of the Tenth Century to the End of the Eighteenth; Including an Account of the Municipal Institutions, Commercial Pursuits, and Social Habits of the People; the Rise and Protestant Reformation, in Holland; the Intestine Dissensions, Foreign Wars. University of California: G. Willis. p. 337.
  2. ^ Markham pp. 275–76
  3. ^ Lennep, Jacob (1865). De voornaamste geschiedenissen van Noord-Nederland: Van de Vereeniging der Nederlanden onder Karel V tot aan den Munsterschen vrede, Volume 1. Gebroeders Kraay. p. 208 (Dutch).