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Flushing Turns to the Sea Beggars (April 6, 1572)
On April 1, 1572, the Sea Beggars had already captured Brielle (Den Briel), the rebels' first foothold port in the Netherlands.…
Timeline
- 1572Scheldt estuary · Zeeland ProvinceAfter William van der Marck's Sea Beggars captured Brielle on April 1, they operated in the Meuse–Scheldt estuary. Flushing's turn came several days after Brielle and was not the first target of the landing operations.
- 1572Flushing · Zeeland ProvinceOn April 6, the citizens of Flushing expelled the Spanish garrison and invited the Sea Beggars into the city. The rebels thereby gained an important Zeeland port from which they could threaten the Scheldt channel, but the 'first strategic port' belongs to Brielle four days earlier.
- 1572Netherlands provinces · NetherlandsAfter Brielle and Flushing fell in succession, many cities in Holland and Zeeland switched to the revolt, and the Eighty Years' War entered a new phase of armed resistance on home soil.
Sources
- Capture of Brielle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Brielle
- Geuzen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geuzen
- The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500–1815 — Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude (1997)