commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Louis of Nassau

nobleman of the Netherlands; military leader in the Eighty Years' War (1538-1574)

Louis of Nassau is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1568 and 1574: 3 battles and 1 siege across 3 present-day countries, most in Netherlands (2), France (1), Belgium (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,548 km apart end to end, 516 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Eighty Years' War (3), French Wars of Religion (1).

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 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
23 May 1568	Battle of Heiligerlee	Heiligerlee, Netherlands		Dutch rebel victory
3 October 1569	Battle of Moncontour	Moncontour, France	858 km SW	Catholic victory
19 September 1572	Siege of Mons	Mons, Belgium	492 km NE	Spanish victory; Valenciennes recaptured by the Spanish...
1574	Battle of Mookerheyde	Mook en Middelaar, Netherlands	198 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, Workshop of Wybrand de Geest, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.