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Significant1658

Battle of the Dunes (1658)

near Dunkirk · Spanish Netherlands

Estimated casualties

4.0K – 6.0Kestimated dead

Spanish ~4,000 casualties (many captured); Franco-English ~400-1,000. Combined ~4,000-6,000.

SOURCEWikipedia

On 14 June 1658, near Dunkirk, a French army under Turenne, reinforced by Cromwellian English New Model Army troops, defeated a Spanish army (which included exiled English Royalists) in the Franco-Spanish War, leading to the surrender of Dunkirk.

Belligerents2

  • France and Commonwealth of England
  • Spain

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of the Dunes (1658)
  2. Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of the Dunes (1658) (1658). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-the-dunes-1658 · Sources & methodology