battle, interwar and Second World War
Battle of Mill
Battle of Mill was a battle fought in 1940 at Mill, North Brabant, in what is now Netherlands. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Mill, North Brabant. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: German victory.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1940 (year precision) to 1940 | |
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| Place | Mill, North Brabant, Netherlands 51.687N, 5.781E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 2,000; 20 field guns; 3 anti-tank guns; 47 casemates | 30,000; 15 mortars; 2 field guns; 3 anti-tank guns; 1 armoured train; 1 troop train; 37 light bombers |
| Casualties and losses | 30 killed; 50 wounded | 500+ killed & wounded; 1 armoured train derailed; 1 troop train destroyed; 9 civilians killed; heavy damage inflicted upon the surrounding farms |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Grave 1674, 8.6 km N
- Siege of Grave 1586, 8.6 km N
- Siege of Grave 1602, 8.6 km N
- Siege of Nijmegen 1591, 17 km N
- Siege of Nijmegen 1794, 17 km N
In the same war
- Before: Battle of the Grebbeberg 11 May 1940
- After: Battle of Hannut 12 May 1940
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1940
- the Blitz United Kingdom
- Bombing of Tokyo Japan
- Japanese invasion of French Indochina Vietnam
- Coventry Blitz United Kingdom
- Hundred Regiments Offensive China
Battle of Mill is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 277 in present-day Netherlands.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q19898993, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Mill, revision 1370449785, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.