Siege of Schenckenschans (1599)

Siege of Schenkenschans
	Part of the Eighty Years' War & the Anglo–Spanish War
	; Siege of Schenkenschans – print by Frans Hogenberg
Date	28 April – 2 May 1599
Location	Schenkenschanz; (present-day Germany)
Result	Dutch and English victory
Belligerents
England; Dutch Republic	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Maurice of Orange	Francisco de Mendoza; Frederik van den Bergh
Strength
900 (Schenkenschans); 800 cavalry (relief)	17,000 troops; 2,000 cavalry
Casualties and losses
Light	400

The siege of Schenkenschans was a siege that took place from 28 April to 2 May 1599 as part of the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War.^[1] Schenkenschans was garrisoned largely by English troops and was besieged by a Spanish force led by Francisco de Mendoza. The siege failed with losses and the Spanish were forced to retreat when a relief force arrived.^[2]^[3]

^ ^a ^b Davies, Charles Maurice (1851). The History of Holland and the Dutch Nation: From the Beginning of the Tenth Century to the End of the Eighteenth; Including an Account of the Municipal Institutions, Commercial Pursuits, and Social Habits of the People; the Rise and Protestant Reformation, in Holland; the Intestine Dissensions, Foreign Wars. University of California: G. Willis. p. 337.
^ Markham pp. 275–76
^ Lennep, Jacob (1865). De voornaamste geschiedenissen van Noord-Nederland: Van de Vereeniging der Nederlanden onder Karel V tot aan den Munsterschen vrede, Volume 1. Gebroeders Kraay. p. 208 (Dutch).

[Davies-1] Davies, Charles Maurice (1851). The History of Holland and the Dutch Nation: From the Beginning of the Tenth Century to the End of the Eighteenth; Including an Account of the Municipal Institutions, Commercial Pursuits, and Social Habits of the People; the Rise and Protestant Reformation, in Holland; the Intestine Dissensions, Foreign Wars. University of California: G. Willis. p. 337.

[Markham-2] Markham pp. 275–76

[Lennep-3] Lennep, Jacob (1865). De voornaamste geschiedenissen van Noord-Nederland: Van de Vereeniging der Nederlanden onder Karel V tot aan den Munsterschen vrede, Volume 1. Gebroeders Kraay. p. 208 (Dutch).

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