Siege of Zaltbommel

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

Siege of Zaltbommel by the Spanish in 1599 by Hugo Grotius
Date15 May – 22 July 1599
Location
Zaltbommel, Bommelerwaard
(present-day the Netherlands)
Result

Dutch and English victory[1][2]

  • Mutinies in the Spanish army[a]
  • War opens up in Southern Netherlands[4]
Belligerents
 Dutch Republic
England England		  Spain
Commanders and leaders
Dutch Republic Maurice of Orange
England Francis Vere		 Spain Francisco de Mendoza
Strength
12,000[5] 12,000
Casualties and losses
500 2,000[6]

The siege of Zaltbommel was a campaign that took place during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War from 15 May to 22 July 1599. The Spanish led by Francisco López de Mendoza y Mendoza launched an offensive campaign around Bommelerwaard, which was defended by an Anglo-Dutch force under the command of Maurice of Orange. A siege on the town of Zaltbommel by Spanish troops was attempted but they had to lift the siege and were defeated in subsequent attempts to regain the initiative. Mendoza retreated and the Spanish army then found itself in chaos: mutinies took effect and as a result further operations were suspended for a number of years. As a result, the Dutch and English followed with a counter-offensive in the Spanish Netherlands.[7][8]

  1. ^ van Nimwegen pg 162
  2. ^ Markham pp 276-77
  3. ^ Duerloo 2012, p. 118.
  4. ^ Duerloo pp 107-08
  5. ^ Dalton pp 27-28
  6. ^ 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. 337–38.
  7. ^ Marjolein 't Hart p 23
  8. ^ Van Tuyl & Groenendijk, R. L & J. N. A (1996). A Van Tuyl Chronicle: 650 Years in the History of a Dutch-American Family. Rory Van Tuyl. pp. 64–66.


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