Battle of Empel

Miracle of Empel
Part of the Eighty Years' War

El milagro de Empel, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau (2015).
DateDecember 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 / 51.73111; 5.32722
Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Strength

30,000 men[1][2]

100-200 ships
4,000-6,000 men
Casualties and losses
High
Several ships burnt or captured[3]
Low
Empel is located in Netherlands
Empel
Empel
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.

  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.
  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
  3. ^ Marek y Villarino de Brugge 2020e, v. V p. 26.

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