Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del Vasto successfully fights its way past a joint English/Dutch ambush in the Battle of Zutphen.

Eighty Years' War

War in the Habsburg Netherlands (c. 1566/1568–1648)

The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, excessive taxation, and the rights and privileges of the Dutch…

Alfonso Félix de Ávalos Aquino y Gonzaga, Marquess del Vasto

Alfonso Félix de Ávalos Aquino y Gonzaga, 8th Marquess of Pescara, 4th Marquess of Vasto, was an Italian noble in the service of the King of Spain.

Kingdom of England

Sovereign state in Europe before 1707

The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century, when it was unified from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United…

Dutch Republic

Predecessor state of the Netherlands (1581–1795)

The Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), also known as the United Provinces (of the Netherlands), and referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1588 until the Batavian…

Battle of Zutphen

16th-century European battle

The Battle of Zutphen was fought on 22 September 1586, near the village of Warnsveld and the town of Zutphen, the Netherlands, during the Eighty Years' War. It was fought between the forces of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, aided by the English, against the Spanish. In…

September 22

Day of the year

September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 100 days remain until the end of the year.