What the records say
- When
- 24 Jun 1635 – 4 Jul 1635
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 50.87° N, 4.70° E
- Description
- 1635 siege in the thirty years' war
Siege of Leuven
1635 battle of the Thirty Years' War
The siege of Leuven was an important siege in the Thirty Years' War in which a Franco-Dutch army under Frederick Henry of Orange and the French Marshals Urbain de Maillé-Brezé and Gaspard III de Coligny, who had invaded the Spanish Netherlands from two sides, laid siege to the city of Leuven, defended by a force of 4,000 comprising local citizen and student militias with Walloons, Germans, Spanish and Irish of the Ar…
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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 “Siege of Leuven commences”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “début du siège de Louvain par les Français et les Hollandais ; ils se retirent le 4 juillet à l'arrivée de Piccolomini”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “осада Лёвена”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page