Atlas of Battles

commander, 11 engagements

Battles of Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury

Battles of Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury

English Baron, 1565 to 1635

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury is recorded as a commander at 11 placed engagements in the atlas between 1597 and 1632: 2 battles and 9 sieges across 3 present-day countries, most in Germany (5), Netherlands (5), Belgium (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,338 km apart end to end, 134 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Eighty Years' War (9), Thirty Years' War (2).

Siege of RheinbergSiege of MeursCapture of EnschedeSiege of OldenzaalSiege of HeidelbergCapture of MannheimSiege of GroenloSiege of LingenSiege of SluisSiege of BredaCapture of MaastrichtSiege of GroenloSiege of LingenSiege of SluisSiege of BredaCapture of MaastrichtAmsterdamFrankfurtBrusselsThe HagueLilleRotterdamAntwerpenLuxembourgMannheimDüsseldorf200 km50.968N, 6.105E
11 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1597: 6 engagements6 in 15971604: 1 engagements1622: 2 engagements1624: 1 engagements1632: 1 engagements15971632
11 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Rheinberg, 1597Siege of Meurs, 1597Siege of Groenlo, 1597Capture of Enschede, 1597Siege of Oldenzaal, 1597Siege of Lingen, 1597Siege of Sluis, 1604Siege of Heidelberg, 1622Capture of Mannheim, 1622Siege of Breda, 1624Capture of Maastricht, 163215971632
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
9 August 1597Siege of RheinbergRheinberg, GermanyDutch and English victory
29 August 1597Siege of MeursMoers, Germany10 km SDutch & English victory
11 September 1597Siege of GroenloGroenlo, Netherlands66 km NDutch-English victory
1597Capture of EnschedeNetherlands27 km NEDutch and English victory
20 October 1597Siege of OldenzaalOldenzaal, Netherlands10 km NDutch and English victory
25 October 1597Siege of LingenLingen, Germany35 km NEDutch and English victory
1604Siege of SluisSluis, Belgium292 km SWAnglo-Dutch victory
23 July 1622Siege of HeidelbergHeidelberg, Germany428 km SESpanish-Imperial victory
20 October 1622Capture of MannheimMannheim, Germany19 km NWImperial–Spanish victory
28 August 1624Siege of BredaBreda, Netherlands350 km NWSpanish victory
9 June 1632Capture of MaastrichtMaastricht, Netherlands101 km SEDutch 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, Attributed to George Gower, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.