What the records say
- When
- 31 Jul 1578
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.00° N, 4.59° E
- Description
- 1578 battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Rijmenam
1578 battle
The Battle of Rijmenam was fought in the early stages of the Eighty Years' War between the forces of the States-General of the Netherlands and those of the Spanish Governor-General of the Habsburg Netherlands, Don Juan de Austria, on 31 July 1578, near Rijmenam in present-day Belgium. The Spanish forces were dealt a strategic defeat.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Рейменаме”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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