Siege of Stettin
1659 CE.
Shown on the map at 53.432°, 14.548°.
The siege of Stettin occurred from 19 September to 5 November 1659 during the Second Northern War of 1655–1660 in the Swedish city of Stettin (modern-day Szczecin, Poland) and resulted in a Swedish victory. In mid-September 1659, an Austrian/Imperial army of 5,000 men under General Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches crossed the Reglitz and Oder rivers to besiege the city of Stettin. This Allied offensive into Swedish Pomerania was supported by 1,500–2,000 Brandenburgian reinforcements under Friedrich zu Dohna, possibly in addition to a Polish-Lithuanian force. Having made an unsuccessful request for surrender, the Allied forces besieged the city. On 7 October, they captured a redoubt on the nearby Oberwiek Mountain, and by the middle of that month, they had dug their trenches right up to the Passauer bastion and the curtain that led to the Holy Spirit bastion. On 20 October, after the Allies had been reinforced with heavy siege guns, they began a new concentrated bombardment of the city after a second failed request for surrender.
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