Relief of Goes
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In August 1572, during the course of the Eighty Years' War, the city of Goes, in the Spanish Netherlands, was besieged by Dutch forces, including several English volunteers. This was a menace to the s
The Siege of Goes, 1572, by Petro Le Poivre.
Engraving of Don Cristóbal de Mondragón, 1599.
Sancho d'Avila
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Don Sancho Dávila y Daza was a Spanish army general.
Relief of Goes
…for long without reinforcements. Don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba and Governor of the Netherlands on behalf of Philip II of Spain, ordered Sancho Dávila, Governor of Antwerp Citadel stationed in North Brabant, to send reinforcements to Goes by sea. The presence in the area of the fleet of the Sea Beggars…
Sancius Avila, PA03814