The Battle of Nieuwpoort, was fought on 2 July 1600 during the Eighty Years War and the Anglo-Spanish war in the dunes near Nieuwpoort. The Anglo-Dutch companies met the Spanish veterans head which, although their left flank nearly broke, were able to assail them with both infantry and cavalry. The Spanish gradually scattered in all directions and left their guns on the field.
Prince Maurice at the Battle of Nieuwpoort by Pauwels van Hillegaert. Oil on canvas
Prince Maurice memorial in Nieuwpoort
Battle of Nieuwpoort by Sebastian Vrancx.
Maurice wins the battle at Nieuwpoort, 1600 showing the capture of Francisco de Mendoza, Admiral of Arragon
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. It began with England's military expedition in 1585 to what was then the Spanish Netherlands under the command of the Earl of Leicester, in support of the Dutch rebellion against Spanish Habsburg rule.
English ships and the Spanish Armada, 8 August 1588, unknown artist
Philip II of Spain
Elizabeth I of England
Siege of Grave in 1586