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
Location51°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)
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