What the records say
- When
- 1584
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.94° N, 4.04° E
- Description
- 1584 siege in Belgium
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Capture of Aalst (1584)
1584 siege in Belgium
The Capture of Aalst of 1584, also known as the Betrayal of Aalst, took place in early February, 1584, at Aalst, County of Aalst, Flanders, during the Eighty Years' War. In 1584, after the successful Spanish military campaign of 1583, the Governor-General Don Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, was focused in subjecting by hunger the cities located on the Scheldt and its tributaries.
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