Regional1579

Battle of Maastricht

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Netherlands

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Maastricht (1579), part of the Netherlands War of Independence. Spain defeated Netherlands. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Spain
Netherlands

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

PART OFEighty Years' War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Maastricht (1579). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-maastricht · Sources & methodology