What the records say
- When
- 22 Nov 1568
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.25° N, 3.50° E
- Description
- 1568 battle of the Eighty Years' War
Battle of Le Quesnoy (1568)
1568 battle of the Eighty Years' War
The Battle of Le Quesnoy was fought between a mostly German army supporting the Dutch rebels and the Spanish Habsburg army.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Dutch rebels commanded by William the Silent defeat Spanish Habsburg troops led by Sancho d'Avila in the battle of Le Quesnoy in northern France”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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