What the records say
- When
- 12 Mar 1579
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.21° N, 4.43° E
- Description
- 1579 battle of the Eighty Years' War
Battle of Borgerhout
1579 battle of the Eighty Years' War
The Battle of Borgerhout was a battle during the Eighty Years' War, of the Spanish Army of Flanders led by Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, upon a fortified camp at the village of Borgerhout, near Antwerp, where several thousand French, English, Scottish, and Walloon soldiers in service of the recently created Union of Utrecht were stationed.
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