Capture of Bacharach
Capture of Bacharach | |
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Part of the Electorate of the Palatinate )(present-day Germany | |
Result | Spanish victory |
The Capture of Bacharach took place on 1 October 1620 at
Background
After securing stores of food and ammunition through the
Bacharach was an important strategic point because it was a bridgehead over the
Spinola, ignoring the entity of Vere's forces, composed of Dutch, English, and Scottish volunteers sent by King
Battle
On 29 September Córdoba marched with his forces and captured
At dawn, the defenders, aided by heavy mist, fired shots of musket, killing three Spaniards and wounding three more.[2] Shortly thereafter the bulk of the forces led by Córdoba arrived. Demoralised by the arrival of the Spanish, the officers of the garrison decided to surrender.[3] The Spanish troops entered Bacharach at 3 pm. Two captains[9] and 94 English soldiers, among other German troops, were taken prisoners.[3][10]
Aftermath
Córdoba left a garrison of 300 soldiers in Bacharach and sent most of his troops under the commanders Diego Ruiz and Baltasar de Santander to capture Kaub.[11] The small garrison of that town soon surrendered. Shortly thereafter, the Spaniards took the Pfalzgrafenstein Castle.[11] Spinola, meanwhile, focused on intercepting the Anglo-Dutch relief, but the Protestant force did not appear.[11] The Anglo-Dutch force went instead to Worms unhindered.[12]
In August 1621, Mainz fell to Spinola's army of 15,000 men, now under the command of Córdoba.[13] Meanwhile, General Spinola, on his return to the Netherlands where the Eighty Years' War was still going on, lay siege to Jülich, and after five months of siege the city fell to the Spaniards, reversing Maurice's success of 1610.[13]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Ibarra p.370
- ^ a b c d Verdadera Relación p.47
- ^ a b c d Hubert Granville Revell Reade: Sidelights on the Thirty Years War p.339
- ^ a b c Ibarra p.367
- ^ a b Ibarra p.366
- ^ a b Ibarra p.368
- ^ Ibarra p.369
- ^ Pursell p.113
- ^ English Captains Dexter and Row. Wilson pp. 135–137
- ^ Wilson p. 135–137
- ^ a b c Ibarra p.371
- ^ Ibarra p.373
- ^ a b Lawrence p.79
References
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- Josef V. Polišenský/Frederick Snider: War and Society in Europe (1618–1648). Bristol: Cambridge University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-521-21659-3
- Francisco de Ibarra: Relación de las campañas del Bajo Palatinado. Published on L' Espagne au XVIe et au XVIIe siècle documents historiques et littéraires. Heilbronn: Henninger 1878.
- Black, Jeremy European Warfare, 1494–1660. Routledge Publishing (2002) ISBN 978-0-415-27531-6
- Wilson, Arthur. The History of Great Britain, Being the Life and Reign of King James I. Printed for Richard Lownds. London 1635.
- (in Spanish) Rodríguez Villa, Antonio. Ambrosio Spínola, Primer Marqués de los Balbases. Estab. tip. de Fortanet 1905.
- Brennan C. Pursell: The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War. Ashgate Publishing, (2003). ISBN 0754634019
- Lawrence, David R. The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England 1603–1645. Brill Academic Publishing. ISBN 90-04-17079-0