Battle on the Zuiderzee

Battle on the Zuiderzee
	Part of the Eighty Years' War
	; The battle, painted by Jan Theunisz. Blanckerhoff.
Date	October 11, 1573
Location	Zuiderzee (now IJsselmeer)
Result	Dutch victory Duke of Alva is forced to abandon Amsterdam;
Belligerents
Dutch Rebels	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Cornelis Jansz Dircksz	Count of Boussu (POW)
Strength
24 ships; 700 sailors	30 ships; 1300 sailors
Casualties and losses
1 ship lost; 25 sailors lost	6 ships captured; 300 sailors captured

The Battle on the Zuiderzee (October 11, 1573^[1]) was a naval battle during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch fleet destroyed a larger and better-equipped Spanish fleet on the Zuiderzee.

^ ^a ^b Gawronski, Jerzy; van Holk, André; Schokkenbroek, Joost (September 25, 2017). Ships And Maritime Landscapes: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 2012. Barkhuis. p. 78. ISBN 978-9492444295.
^ Grant, R. G. (October 24, 2017). 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History. Book Sales. p. 286. ISBN 978-0785835530.

[Gawronski-1] Gawronski, Jerzy; van Holk, André; Schokkenbroek, Joost (September 25, 2017). Ships And Maritime Landscapes: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 2012. Barkhuis. p. 78. ISBN 978-9492444295.

[2] Grant, R. G. (October 24, 2017). 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History. Book Sales. p. 286. ISBN 978-0785835530.

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