| Siege of Schenkenschans | |||||||
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| Part of the Eighty Years' War & the Anglo–Spanish War | |||||||
&sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:Beleg_van_Schenkenschans_door_de_Spanjaarden_1599.jpg) Siege of Schenkenschans – print by Frans Hogenberg | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 England Dutch Republic |
 Spain | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Maurice of Orange |
Francisco de Mendoza Frederik van den Bergh | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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900 (Schenkenschans) 800 cavalry (relief) |
17,000 troops 2,000 cavalry | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Light | 400 | ||||||
The siege of Schenkenschans was a siege that took place from 28 April to 2 May 1599 as part of the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War.[1] Schenkenschans was garrisoned largely by English troops and was besieged by a Spanish force led by Francisco de Mendoza. The siege failed with losses and the Spanish were forced to retreat when a relief force arrived.[2][3]
- ^ a b Davies, Charles Maurice (1851). The History of Holland and the Dutch Nation: From the Beginning of the Tenth Century to the End of the Eighteenth; Including an Account of the Municipal Institutions, Commercial Pursuits, and Social Habits of the People; the Rise and Protestant Reformation, in Holland; the Intestine Dissensions, Foreign Wars. University of California: G. Willis. p. 337.
- ^ Markham pp. 275–76
- ^ Lennep, Jacob (1865). De voornaamste geschiedenissen van Noord-Nederland: Van de Vereeniging der Nederlanden onder Karel V tot aan den Munsterschen vrede, Volume 1. Gebroeders Kraay. p. 208 (Dutch).