Significant1578
Battle of Gembloux (1578)
Gembloux · near Namur · Spanish Netherlands
Estimated casualties
6.0K – 8.0Kestimated dead
Rebel losses exceeded 6,000 killed plus thousands captured; Spanish losses minimal (~a dozen).
SOURCEWikipedia
On 31 January 1578, during the Eighty Years' War, Spanish cavalry under Alexander Farnese routed a States-General rebel army near Gembloux, inflicting over 6,000 casualties at trivial cost and helping shatter the Union of Brussels.
Belligerents2
- Spanish Empire
- Dutch rebels
ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Gembloux (1578)
- Geoffrey Parker, The Dutch Revolt
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Gembloux (1578) (1578). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-gembloux-1578 · Sources & methodology