commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Sancho d'Avila

Spanish general, 1523 to 1583

Sancho d'Avila is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1568 and 1580: 5 battles across 4 present-day countries, most in Portugal (2), Germany (1), France (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 2,598 km apart end to end, 650 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Eighty Years' War (3), War of the Portuguese Succession (2).

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

Engagements by year

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

In time order

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

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
25 April 1568	Battle of Dahlen	Rheindahlen, Germany		Spanish victory
12 November 1568	Battle of Le Quesnoy	Le Quesnoy, France	225 km SW	Dutch rebel victory
1574	Battle of Mookerheyde	Mook en Middelaar, Netherlands	236 km NE	Spanish victory
1580	Battle of Alcântara	Alcântara, Portugal	1,862 km SW	Spanish victory
1580	Capture of Porto	Porto, Portugal	276 km N	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, Original uploader was Sjoerd22 at nl.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.