Spinola's campaign was launched by the Spanish crown in 1605 as a response to Maurice of Nassau's territorial expansion within the Habsburg Netherlands during his ten years campaign. During this campa
Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola (c. 1609), by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
The battle of Mülheim
The relief of Bredevoort
The relief of Groenlo
Siege of Lingen (1605)
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The siege of Lingen of 1605 took place between 10 August and 19 August 1605, at Lingen, District of Emsland, Lower Saxony, between Spain and the United Provinces, during the Eighty Years' War. Prince
Spinola's campaign of 1605–1606
…a 3 year long siege that resulted in more than 100,000 people either killed, wounded or captured. But failed to relieve Sluis in 1604. Campaign The siege of Lingen Spinola left Ostend on 6 July 1605, leading an army of 15,000 men, and crossed the Rhine near Kaiserswerth to begin his campaign. Throughout the…
Siege and capture of Lingen in 1605 by Don Ambrosio Spinola.