Siege of Groningen (1672)
1672 battle in the Franco-Dutch War
Siege of Groningen | |||||||
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Part of Franco-Dutch War | |||||||
The siege of Groningen in 1672, by Dirk Maas | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Bishopric of Münster | Dutch Republic | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Bernhard von Galen | Carl von Rabenhaupt | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
24,000 | unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12,000 killed | unknown |
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Franco-Dutch War
Low Countries and Lower Rhine
- Groenlo
- Tolhuis
- Groningen
- Aardenburg
- Coevorden
- Woerden
- 1st Maastricht
- Staphorst
- Naarden
- Bonn
- Seneffe
- Grave
- 2nd Maastricht
- Valenciennes
- Cassel
- Cambrai
- Ghent
- Ypres
- Saint-Denis
Upper Rhine
- Sinsheim
- Entzheim
- Mulhouse
- Turckheim
- Salzbach
- Altenheim
- Konzer Brücke
- Trier
- Philippsburg
- Kochersberg
- Freiburg
- Rheinfelden
- Ortenbach
France
- Besançon
- Noirmoutier
Southern Italy
- 1st Messina
North Germany and Scandinavia
- Brandenburg
- Rathenow
- Nauen
- Fehrbellin
- Bremen-Verden
- Gotland
- Christianstad
- Halmstad
- Lund
- Malmö
- Landskrona
- Marstrand
- Conquest of Jemtland
- Uddevalla
- Warksow
- Rügen
- Stralsund
- Great Sleigh Drive
Pyrenees
- Maureillas
- Espouilles
Americas
- Dutch Raid on North America
- 1st Curaçao
- New Netherland
- Acadia
- Martinique
Naval battles
- Action of 12 March 1672
- Solebay
- First and Second Schooneveld
- James River
- Texel
- Masulipatnam
- Málaga
- 2nd Messina
- Stromboli
- Augusta
- Bornholm
- Öland
- Palermo
- Tobago
- Møn
- Køge Bay
- Wissant
The Siege of Groningen was a battle that took place in 1672 during the Franco-Dutch war. It was a Dutch victory that ended all hope of the Bishop of Münster to push deeper into the Netherlands. The Münster army was so weakened by the defeat that the Dutch army successfully reconquered much of the land that Münster had conquered just weeks earlier. Every year, the city of Groningen celebrates its victory as a local holiday on 28 August.
Further reading
- Israel, Jonathan (1995), The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-873072-1
External links
- Media related to Siege of Groningen (1672) at Wikimedia Commons
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