What the records say
- When
- 30 Oct 1572
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 51.50° N, 3.88° E
- Description
- 1572 battle of the Eighty Years' War
Relief of Goes
1572 battle of the Eighty Years' War
In August 1572, during the course of the Eighty Years' War, the city of Goes, in the Spanish Netherlands, was besieged by Dutch forces, including several English volunteers. This was a menace to the safety of the nearby city of Middelburg, also under siege.
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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 “Eighty Years' War – Relief of Goes: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios wade across the estuary of the Scheldt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les tercios espagnols traversent à gué l'Escaut pour secourir Goes assiégé par les forces de l'Union d'Utrecht qui sont surprises et se retirent”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “выручка Гуса”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Cristóbal de Mondragón dirige el socorro de Goes durante la guerra de Flandes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page