Siege of Rheinfelden (1633)

1633 battle of the Thirty Years' War
47°33′N 7°48′E / 47.550°N 7.800°E / 47.550; 7.800Result Spanish victoryTerritorial
changes Rheinfelden is captured by the SpaniardsBelligerents Spain Spain  SwedenCommanders and leaders Spain Duke of Feria UnknownStrength 20,000 troops[1][2] 350 troops[3]Casualties and losses Unknown All killed[3]
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The siege of Rheinfelden of 1633 or the Spanish recapture of Rheinfelden (Spanish: La Expugnación de Rheinfelden) took place in late October 1633, during the Thirty Years' War.[1][2]

The Spanish Army of Alsace (20,000 troops)[1] led by the Duke of Feria, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, recaptured the Habsburgian city of Rheinfelden after relieving Konstanz, Breisach and Bregenz. His plan, designed by the favourite and chief minister of Philip IV of Spain, Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, was to release the Spanish road along the Rhine of the harassment by Swedish and Protestant-German troops (Heilbronn League), defend the Franche-Comté, safeguard the Tyrol, support the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and open a strategic corridor for the Spanish troops from the Spanish Lombardy to the Spanish Netherlands.[1][2]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Black p.135
  2. ^ a b c Parker p.119
  3. ^ a b Fajardo, p. 70
  • Biografía de Don Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, III Duque de Feria (in Spanish)
  • The Thirty Years War – The Catholic Encyclopedia

References

  • Black, Jeremy. European Warfare 1494–1660. Routledge Publishing (2002) ISBN 978-0-415-27531-6
  • Parker, Geoffrey (1984). The Thirty Years' War. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-415-15458-8
  • Fajardo, Diego de Saavedra (1986). España y Europa en el siglo XVII: correspondencia de Saavedra Fajardo.