Siege of Deventer (1578)
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Siege of Deventer (1578) | |||||||||
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Part of the Eighty Years' War | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
States-General of the Netherlands | German garrison under Spanish command | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Graaf van Rennenberg Diederik Sonoy |
Augustyn Ryck Haurincourt | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Army of Rennenberg: 10 detachments (around 1,300) French army: 1,000 | 900 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Unknown | 300 |
The siege of Deventer was a siege of the city of Deventer by States troops under George van Lalaing, count of Rennenberg, from 3 August to 19 November 1578 during the Eighty Years' War. It was besieged in an attempt by the States-General of the Netherlands to better protect the regions of Holland and Utrecht from Spanish plundering. Since 1572 the city had been held by the German Polweiler-regiment for the Spanish Empire on behalf of Don John of Austria. After Lalaing had put into practice a number of pieces of strategic advice from Johan van den Kornput, the city was prepared to negotiate a surrender and on 19 November 1578 handed itself over to States troops.