commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Maarten Schenck van Nydeggen

Dutch mercenary, 1540 to 1589

Maarten Schenck van Nydeggen is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1578 and 1586: 1 battle and 3 sieges across 3 present-day countries, most in Netherlands (2), Belgium (1), Germany (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 240 km apart end to end, 80 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Eighty Years' War (4).

4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Eighty Years' War 4

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
31 January 1578	Battle of Gembloux	Gembloux, Belgium		Spanish victory
February 1586	Siege of Grave	Grave, Netherlands	151 km NE	Spanish victory
28 June 1586	Siege of Venlo	Venlo, Netherlands	53 km SE	Spanish victory
13 August 1586	Siege of Rheinberg	Rheinberg, Germany	36 km NE	Spanish victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, http://members.home.nl/tetrode/Nassau/Schenk.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.