Siege of Frankenthal
1623 battle of the Thirty Years' War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The siege of Frankenthal was a siege of the Palatinate campaign during the Thirty Years' War. A Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba besieged the Palatinate fortified city of Frankenthal and its mostly English garrison commanded by John Burroughs. The siege lasted from 1621 to March 20, 1623, when King James I ordered the city to surrender.[2]
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Siege of Frankenthal | |||||||
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Part of the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War | |||||||
1625 engraving of the siege | |||||||
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Electoral Palatinate Kingdom of England |
Holy Roman Empire Spain | ||||||
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King James I John Burroughs | Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba | ||||||
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