Mutiny of Hoogstraten

Mutiny of Hoogstraten
Date1 September 1602 – 18 May 1604
LocationHoogstraten, Habsburg Netherlands
Also known asthe Union of Hoogstraten
Causearrears of pay
Participantssoldiers of the Army of Flanders

The Mutiny of Hoogstraten (1 September 1602 – 18 May 1604) was the longest mutiny by soldiers of the Army of Flanders during the Eighty Years' War.[1] Frederick Van den Berg's attempt to end the mutiny by force, with a siege to recapture the town, ended in defeat at the hands of an Anglo-Dutch army under of Maurice of Nassau. After a period of nearly three years the mutineers were able either to join Maurice's army or rejoin the Spanish army after a pardon had been ratified.[2]

  1. ^ Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688 (Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2010), p. 39.
  2. ^ Allen p 133

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