Siege of Middelburg

1572 CE.

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The siege of Middelburg (1572–1574) lasted over a year during the Eighty Years' War. A Dutch rebel army besieged Middelburg, which was being held by Spanish forces under Cristóbal de Mondragón, on 4 November 1572. The Spanish held out and only capitulated on 18 February 1574, when news arrived that a relief effort to save Middelburg was defeated at Rimmerswiel.

Text from the Wikipedia article Siege of Middelburg (1572–1574), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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