Post by Toyama on Aug 23, 2017 10:31:07 GMT
Here are some key battles for the Netherlands:
55 BC
Near Kessel, Caesar slaughtered some 100.000-400.000 men, women and children of migrating German/Teuton tribes. The battle is mentioned in Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, but is only recently proven to have actually happened.
1600 - The Battle of Nieuwpoort.
Halfway in the Eighty Years’ War, the Dutch army under Maurice of Nassau defeated the Spanish army under Albert of Austria, although the Dutch strategic aims were not achieved.
1667 - The Raid on the Medway (also called the Battle of the Medway, Raid on Chatham or the Battle of Chatham)
The Dutch Navy, under Michiel the Ruyter, performed a daring upriver raid on English fleet anchorages, resulting in one of the worst defeats in the Royal Navy's history and effectively ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
18 juni 1815 - The Battle of Waterloo.
In present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt.
May 1940 - The Battle of the Grebbeberg
A major engagement during the Battle of the Netherlands, which was a part of the World War II Operation Fall Gelb, resulting in 5 years of German occupation of the Netherlands.
1944 - The Battle of Arnhem
Part of Operation Market garden, British and Polish Airborne troops were dropped in the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the lower Rhine. The battle ended in a major Allied defeat.
55 BC
Near Kessel, Caesar slaughtered some 100.000-400.000 men, women and children of migrating German/Teuton tribes. The battle is mentioned in Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, but is only recently proven to have actually happened.
1600 - The Battle of Nieuwpoort.
Halfway in the Eighty Years’ War, the Dutch army under Maurice of Nassau defeated the Spanish army under Albert of Austria, although the Dutch strategic aims were not achieved.
1667 - The Raid on the Medway (also called the Battle of the Medway, Raid on Chatham or the Battle of Chatham)
The Dutch Navy, under Michiel the Ruyter, performed a daring upriver raid on English fleet anchorages, resulting in one of the worst defeats in the Royal Navy's history and effectively ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
18 juni 1815 - The Battle of Waterloo.
In present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt.
May 1940 - The Battle of the Grebbeberg
A major engagement during the Battle of the Netherlands, which was a part of the World War II Operation Fall Gelb, resulting in 5 years of German occupation of the Netherlands.
1944 - The Battle of Arnhem
Part of Operation Market garden, British and Polish Airborne troops were dropped in the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the lower Rhine. The battle ended in a major Allied defeat.