Capture of Brielle

When

1 Apr 1572

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

51.90° N, 4.17° E

1572 battle of the Eighty Years' War in Brielle, the Netherlands

The Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen, on 1 April 1572 marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years' War. Militarily the success was minor as the port of Brielle was undefended, but it provided the first foothold on land for the rebels at a time when the rebellion was all but crushed, and it offered the sign for a new revolt throughout the Netherlands which led to…

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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 “Capture of Brielle: The Sea Beggars, Netherlandish Calvinist rebels, capture the port city of Brielle”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les Gueux prennent le port de La Brielle en Hollande”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “захват Брилле”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Toma de Brielle en los Países Bajos por los mendigos del mar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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