What the records say
- When
- 7 Dec 1585 – 8 Dec 1585
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.73° N, 5.33° E
- Description
- 1585 battle
Battle of Empel
1585 battle of the Eighty Years' War
The Miracle of Empel was a Spanish victory on December 8, 1585, near Empel, in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War. A Dutch force under Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein had trapped several thousand Spanish soldiers of the Army of Flanders under Francisco Arias de Bobadilla on an island between the Meuse and Waal rivers by breaching dikes and using naval patrols.
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