| 词条 | Siege of Bad Kreuznach | ||||
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|conflict=Siege of Bad Kreuznach | image= Alte Nahebrücke, Bad Kreuznach.jpg | image_size = 300 |caption=Alte Nahebrücke, Bad Kreuznach . |partof=the Thirty Years' War |date=10 September 1620 |place= Kreuznach, Electorate of the Palatinate (present-day Germany) |result=Spanish victory[1] |combatant1={{Flagicon image|Flag of The Electoral Palatinate (1604).svg}} Electorate of the Palatinate |combatant2={{flagicon|Spain|1506}} Spain |commander1=Unknown |commander2={{flagicon|Spain|1506}} Carlos Coloma |strength1= 3 infantry companies 1 company of cavalry (Exact number unknown)[1] |strength2= 5,000 infantry 300 cavalry 4 cannons[2] |casualties1= All forces surrendered[1] |casualties2= None[1] |}}{{campaignbox Thirty Years' War Bohemian Revolt}}{{Campaignbox Palatinate campaign}} The Siege of Bad Kreuznach or the Spanish capture of Bad Kreuznach took place on 10 September 1620, in Bad Kreuznach in the Electorate of the Palatinate, where the Army of Flanders, led by the spanish Don Ambrosio Spinola, conquered the troops of Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate, during the Palatinate campaign of the Thirty Years' War.[1] The Army of Flanders was a multinational army in the service of the kings of Spain that was based in the Netherlands during the 16th to 18th centuries.[3] Spinola's troops stormed Bad Kreuznach and its garrison surrendered. Later the town was freed on an oath not to rebel against the Holy Roman Empire.[1][4] BackgroundThe Thirty Years' War began in 1618 with the Bohemian Revolt, when the authorities of Bohemia offered the throne of their kingdom to the Protestant Frederick V of the Palatinate. He accepted and this initiated a conflict between the Protestant Union led by Frederick and the Catholic House of Habsburg.[5] Two years after the outbreak of the war the situation had apparently reached a standstill, but in reality via diplomatic manoeuvres the Habsburgs were able to politically isolate Frederick, between whose hits highlighted Spain's entry into the conflict.{{Incomprehensible inline|date=June 2018|reason=last clause of sentence makes no sense}}[5] In August 1620, Spinola and 25,000 soldiers from the Army of Flanders began their march from Brussels, and in early September they entered the Lower Palatinate, taking Bad Kreuznach, Oppenheim, and the Bergstrasse district, and on 1 October Bacharach.[6] Since the Elector of Palatine had not yet begun hostilities against the Spanish monarchy, Spinola tried to occupy the main towns of the Palantine as peaceably as possible.[1] On 8 September Spinola marched with his army against the Palatine forces not far from Oppenheim. At midnight he ordered his Field Marshal Don Carlos II Coloma, in command of two Tercios of infantry, numbering about 5,000 soldiers and 300 horsemen, to take the town of Kreuznach, a town of some importance because it had a fortified bridge over the Nahe river and Kauzenburg Castle, which overlooked the town.[1] AssaultDon Carlos Coloma arrived with his troops at the gates of the town on the evening, 10 September, and sent emissaries to the authorities saying that if they surrendered to the obedience of Emperor Ferdinand II they would be well treated. Faced with an ambiguous response from the defenders, Coloma ordered the placement of four cannons and moved his troops to the foot of the walls, and the gate of the town to launch the assault.[1] The defenders of Kreuznach, whose forces consisted of three companies of infantry and one of cavalry, decided to act and fired their muskets from the castle overlooking the town. Then, the Flanders forces, in perfect formation, responded by opening fire with their cannons. A few minutes later, the garrison decided to surrender the town. The Army of Flanders captured the horses and the weapons of the Palatine soldiers, and Coloma forced the Palatine troops to take an oath not to continue fighting against the Emperor.[1] ConsequencesWith the news of the fall of Kreuznach, Spinola continued the march with his army over the Palatinate to Alsheim, one of the main cities of the region, and captured it in the same day.[7] Four days after, on 14 September, Spinola, with a great maneuver of distraction over Worms, captured Oppenheim, without too much difficulty, causing a severe blow to the Protestant forces.[8] GallerySee also
Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 de Ibarra p. 361 2. ^de Ibarra p. 362 3. ^Parker (2004) 4. ^Polišenský and Snider 5. ^1 Guthrie p. 57 6. ^Pursell, p. 113 7. ^de Ibarra p.363 8. ^de Ibarra p. 364 References
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