Hessian War
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The Hessian War, in its wider sense sometimes also called the Hessian Wars, was a drawn-out conflict that took place between 1604 and 1648, sometimes pursued through diplomatic means, sometimes by mil
Philip I, the last landgrave of all Hesse (died 1567)
Louis IV, the only landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (line died out in 1604)
Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1626)
Maurice of Hesse-Cassel (abdicated in 1627)
Siege of Dorsten
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In the siege of Dorsten, an Imperial force under Melchior von Hatzfeldt besieged the Hessian garrison in the town of Dorsten from 16 July 1641 to 19 September 1641 during the Thirty Years' War. The ga
Hessian War
…Hesse-Cassel lost the town of Dorsten in Vest Recklinghausen, which they had seized in 1633, to troops of the Imperial Army and Electorate of Cologne after a siege lasting several weeks. This was the most important Hessian position on the right bank of Lower Rhine. But after the imperial forces partially withdrew to fight in other…
The Town of Dorsten in 1641 by Matthäus Merian.
The siege of Dorsten, 1641