Siege of Groenlo (1597)

Siege of Groenlo (1597)
Part of the Eighty Years' War
Depiction of the siege of Grol by Maurice in 1597
Date 11–28 September 1597 Location Groenlo, Gelderland (present-day the Netherlands) 52°3′0.00″N 6°37′0.01″E / 52.0500000°N 6.6166694°E / 52.0500000; 6.6166694 Result Dutch-English victory[1]
Belligerents
United Provinces England	Spanish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Maurice of Nassau Horace Vere	Jan van Stirum
Strength
6,000 infantry 1,400 cavalry 14 artillery pieces[2]	800 infantry 300 cavalry[2]
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The siege of Groenlo was a siege of Groenlo during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War by a Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau after it had followed an unsuccessful siege by Maurice in 1595.^[3]

The siege lasted from 11 to 28 September 1597 and ended in the town's capture from its Spanish garrison.^[2]

After the capture the troops moved to take Bredevoort and formed part of Maurice's successful offensives against the Spanish in 1597.^[1][3]

Groenlo was then held by the States until a siege in 1606 by Ambrosio Spinola.

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• Hart, Marjolein 't (2014). The Dutch Wars of Independence: Warfare and Commerce in the Netherlands 1570-1680 Modern Wars In Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 9781317812548.