Battle of Jemmingen

When

21 Jul 1568

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

53.25° N, 7.38° E

Description

1568 battle during the Eighty Years' War

1568 battle of the Eighty Years' War

After the Battle of Heiligerlee, the Dutch rebel leader Louis of Nassau failed to capture the city of Groningen. Louis was driven away by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba and defeated at the Battle of Jemmingen on 21 July 1568.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Jemmingen: The main Spanish army of the Duke of Alba utterly defeats Louis of Nassau's invading army in the Northeastern Netherlands”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Herzog von Alba, der die Aufständischen unter Ludwig von Nassau bis Ostfriesland verfolgt hat”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire espagnole du duc d'Albe à la bataille de Jemmingen sur Louis de Nassau”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Йеммингене”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en los Países Bajos se libra la batalla de Jemmingen entre las tropas españolas de Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y los rebeldes holandeses de Luis de Nassau”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Eighty Years' War2 Jun 1568 · Civil war