Battle of Wattrelos
Battle of Wattrelos | |||||||
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Part of the Eighty Years’ War | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
200 infantry |
50 cavalry 150 infantry[citation needed] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Almost 200[1] | ? |
The Battle of Wattrelos (also called Watrelois or Waterloo) at the Flemish (now French) town of Wattrelos on 27 December 1566 between an army of beggars and an Imperial Spanish army; it was one of the first battles of the Dutch Revolt.
Battle[]
Maximilian Vilain, stadtholder of Walloon Flanders, heard that the Beggars advanced to Doornik and sent 50 cavalry and 150 infantry in response. On 27 December the Spanish defeated the Beggars, who fled into a church which was set on fire by the Spanish.[2]
Two days after the defeat the Beggars lost another battle at Lannoy and lost Doornik. Jan Denys was hanged in Brussels on 22 April 1567.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Geuzenproject.org
- ^ John Lothrop Motley, De Opkomst van de nederlandsche Republiek, Volume 2 (1860) blz. 188-189. (oorspr. titel The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856) vertaald door ). 's-Gravenhage: W.P. van Stockum.
Categories:
- 1566
- History of Flanders
- Battles of the Eighty Years' War