Battle of Oosterweel | |||||||
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Part of the Eighty Years' War | |||||||
![]() Battle of Oosterweel From Pieter Bor's Nederlantsche Oorloghen | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Dutch rebels |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Jean Marnix † |
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Strength | |||||||
2,500 | 800[1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
"Almost the entire force killed or captured" | Unknown |
The Battle of Oosterweel took place on 13 March 1567 near the village of Oosterweel , near Antwerp, in present-day Belgium, and is traditionally seen as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War.[a] A Spanish mercenary army surprised a band of rebels and killed or captured almost all of them.
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