Siege of Kaiserswerth

Siege of Kaiserswerth (1702)
Part of the War of the Spanish Succession

The Allied siege plan
Date18 April – 15 June 1702
(1 month and 4 weeks)
Location
Kaiserswerth, Germany
51°17′56″N 6°44′28″E / 51.299°N 6.741°E / 51.299; 6.741
Result Allied victory
Belligerents

 Holy Roman Empire

 Dutch Republic
 France
Commanders and leaders
Prince of Nassau-Usingen Marquis de Blainville
Strength
38,000 men
80 guns
59 mortars
6 howitzers
70 hand-mortars
5,000 men
30 artillery pieces and mortars
Casualties and losses
2,800–9,000 killed and wounded 350 killed and wounded

The siege of Kaiserswerth (18 April – 15 June 1702), was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession. Prussian and Dutch troops numbering 38,000 men and 215 artillery pieces and mortars under the command of Imperial Field Marshal Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, besieged and captured the small French fortress on the Lower Rhine, which the French had occupied without resistance the previous year. The Dutch regarded the capture of this fortification as more important than an advance into the French-held Spanish Netherlands.[1]

  1. ^ Bodart 1908, p. 125.