Siege of Kaiserswerth (1702) | |||||||
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Part of the War of the Spanish Succession | |||||||
![]() The Allied siege plan | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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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]