Siege of Rheinberg (1597)

Siege of Rheinberg (1597)
Part of the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War

Siege of Rheinberg in 1597 by Jan Janssonius
Date9 up to 19 August 1597
Location
Rheinberg
(present-day Germany)
Result Dutch and English victory[1][2]
Belligerents
 Dutch Republic
England England		 Spain Spanish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Dutch Republic Maurice of Nassau
England Horace Vere		 Spain Camillo Sachino
Strength
8,200[3] 850[3]
Casualties and losses
Light All captured

The siege of Rheinberg took place from the 9 to 19 August 1597 during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War by a Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange. The siege ended with the capitulation and the withdrawal of the Spanish after much unrest in the garrison. The liberation of the city of Rheinberg was the commencement of Maurice's campaign of 1597, a successful offensive against the Spaniards during the period known as the Ten Glory Years.[4][5]

Maurice of Orange
  1. ^ Motley pg 455-56
  2. ^ van Nimwegen pg 166
  3. ^ a b Duyck, Anthonis (1864). Journaal, 1591-1602: Uitg. op last van het departement van Oorlog, met in leiding en aantekeningen door Lodewijk Mulder, Volume 2. Nijhoff. pp. 309–36 (Dutch).
  4. ^ Israel pg 29-30
  5. ^ Naphy pg 95