Claude Frédéric t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly
Claude Frederic t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly, was a prominent Walloon general in service of the Dutch States Army. He took part in the Franco-Dutch War, Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession and proved a brave and capable cavalry general. In 1708 he became the de facto supreme commander of the Dutch army, and led the Allied forces together with the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
Claude Frederic T'Serclaes, duke of Tilly, painted by Johann Valentin Tischbein, ca 1750
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers
Parade of Dutch soldiers with captured French and Bavarian banners after the Battle of Ekeren, by Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht
Allied battle order at Malplaquet. Tilly is mentioned as one of the supreme commanders.
The Battle of Ekeren, which took place on 30 June 1703, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. A Bourbon army of around 24,000 men, conisting of troops from France, Spain and Cologne, surrounded a smaller Dutch force of 12,000 men, which however managed to break out and retire to safety.
Battle of Ekeren, Jasper Broers
Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam
Louis-François de Boufflers
The Battle of Ekeren by Constantijn Francken
