Battle of Empel

Miracle of Empel
	Part of the Eighty Years' War
	; El milagro de Empel, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau (2015).
Date	December 6-8, 1585
Location	Empel, Netherlands, between the Meuse and Waal rivers.51°43′52″N 5°19′38″E / 51.73111°N 5.32722°E
Result	Spanish victory
Belligerents
United Provinces;	Spain;
Commanders and leaders
Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein;	Juan del Águila; Francisco Arias de Bobadilla;
Strength
30,000 men 100-200 ships	4,000-6,000 men
Casualties and losses
High; Several ships burnt or captured	Low
	Empel class=notpageimage\| The Netherlands

The Miracle of Empel (Milagro de Empel in Spanish) was an unexpected Spanish victory on December 8, 1585, near Empel, in the Netherlands, as part of the Eighty Years' War, in which a surrounded Spanish force managed to escape when the waters around their island suddenly froze.

^ Schutten, C.M. "De strijd bij Empel (1585). Een episode uit de Tachtigjarige Oorlog" (PDF). Internet archive: wayback machine (in Dutch). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
^ Villatoro, Manuel P. (November 17, 2015), "Empel, el misterioso milagro que evitó la masacre de un tercio español en Holanda", ABC (in Spanish), retrieved November 29, 2022
^ Marek y Villarino de Brugge 2020e, v. V p. 26.

[Schutten-1] Schutten, C.M. "De strijd bij Empel (1585). Een episode uit de Tachtigjarige Oorlog" (PDF). Internet archive: wayback machine (in Dutch). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2022.

[ABC-2] Villatoro, Manuel P. (November 17, 2015), "Empel, el misterioso milagro que evitó la masacre de un tercio español en Holanda", ABC (in Spanish), retrieved November 29, 2022

[FOOTNOTEMarek_y_Villarino_de_Brugge2020ev.&nbsp;V_p.&nbsp;26-3] Marek y Villarino de Brugge 2020e, v. V p. 26.

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