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
The Town of Dorsten in 1641 by Matthäus Merian.
The siege of Dorsten, 1641
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
Siege of Dorsten
…Dorsten, Hesse-Cassel had lost the most important fortress on the right bank of the Lower Rhine and, in the aftermath, concentrated their efforts in the Hessian War, together with the so-called Weimar Army in French service under Guébriant, on the left bank possessions of the Archbishopric of Cologne under Ferdinand…
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)