What the records say
- When
- 18 Apr 1702 – 15 Jun 1702
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 51.30° N, 6.74° E
- Description
- 1702 siege
Siege of Kaiserswerth
1702 siege
The siege of Kaiserswerth, was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession. Prussian and Dutch troops numbering 38,000 men and 215 artillery pieces and mortars under the command of Imperial Field Marshal Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, besieged and captured the small French fortress on the Lower Rhine, which the French had occupied without resistance the previous year.
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