The siege of Bergen op Zoom was a siege that took place between September 23 - November 13, 1588, during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War. The siege took place in the aftermath of the S
Anno 1588. Marcelis Bax's brave performance during a sortie
Dutch cavalry attacking Spanish siege lines during the Siege of the Anglo-Dutch town of Bergen-op-Zoom by the Duke of Parma 1588 - by Jan Luyken
Siege of Bergen op Zoom in 1588 by the Duke of Parma Print by Bartholomeus Dolendo
Peregrine Bertie, with siege of Bergen behind him
Francis Vere
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Sergeant Major General Sir Francis Vere was an English army officer and politician who served during the reign of Elizabeth I and fought mainly in the Low Countries during the Anglo-Spanish War of 158
Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1588)
…forced the Spanish to flee from their entrenchments having lost a great deal of supplies, prisoners, and equipment. During one of the sallies a young Francis Vere received a wound from a pike to this leg. Dutch militia cavalry under the command of Bergen op Zoom traders Paul and Marcellus Bax made a sortie on the…
Portrait by William Faithorne, c. 1657
The siege of Groningen in 1594
Battle of Turnhout - 1597. English cavalry led by Vere shown on bottom right
Battle of Nieuwpoort, 1600. From The commentaries of Sr. Francis Vere