Siege of Grave (1586) | |||||||
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Part of the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) | |||||||
The siege of Grave in 1586 by Don Alejandro Farnesio. Engraving by Michelangelo Cerquozzi. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United Provinces Kingdom of England | Spain | ||||||
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Earl of Leicester Philip of Hohenlohe Martin Schenck |
Alexander Farnese Count of Mansfeld Juan del Águila |
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The Siege of Grave, also known as the Capture of Grave of 1586, took place from mid-February – June 7, 1586, at Grave, Duchy of Brabant, Low Countries (present-day the North Brabant, the Netherlands), between the Spanish army led by Governor-General Don Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, and the Dutch-States and English forces under the Governor of Grave, the Baron Peter van Hemart, during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).[2][1] In early spring of 1586, the Count Peter Ernst of Mansfeld, by order of Alexander Farnese, laid siege to the town of Grave.[3][4] After little more than a month, and the impossibility of the English and Dutch forces for relieving the city, Grave surrendered to the Spaniards on June 7.[2][1] The capture of the strategically important town of Grave by Parma, and the impotence of the English commander Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to relieve the town, in a time where England had raised hopes to the Dutch rebels thanks to the Treaty of Nonsuch, was a complete military and political success for the Spanish authorities, and a severe blow for the Protestant cause, provoking the start of the disagreements of the States-General of the Netherlands with the Earl of Leicester.[2][1][5]
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