Mutiny of Hoogstraten

Mutiny of Hoogstraten

Date	1 September 1602 – 19 May 1605
Location	Hoogstraten, Habsburg Netherlands
Also known as	the Union of Hoogstraten
Cause	arrears of pay
Participants	soldiers of the Army of Flanders

Siege of Hoogstraten
Part of the Eighty Years' War & the Anglo–Spanish War
Relief of the mutineers of Hoogstraten by Maurice's army August 1603
Date 26 July - 10 August 1603 Location Hoogstraten (present-day Belgium) Result Mutineer - allied victory
Belligerents
Dutch Republic England  Spain (mutineers)	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Maurice of Orange	Frederick Van den Berg
Strength
14,000 3,000 mutineers	8,000

The Mutiny of Hoogstraten (1 September 1602 – 19 May 1605) was the longest mutiny by soldiers of the Army of Flanders during the Eighty Years' War. A siege then took place where an attempted relief to recapture the town and punish the mutineers by a Spanish relieving force under Frederick Van den Berg ended in defeat at the hands of an Anglo-Dutch army under of Maurice of Nassau. After a time of nearly three years the mutineers were able either to join Maurice's army or rejoin the Spanish army after a pardon had been ratified.

Prince Maurice of Orange had been actively campaigning against the Spanish armies in the Southern Netherlands and had successfully made sure that Ostend then under siege by Archduke Albert of Austria would be a key distraction while he took the rest of the Spanish garrisons that were still in the Republic. Maurice in his first objective successfully besieged and took Rheinberg in July 1601. Then between July and September 1602 the Spanish held city of Grave was besieged and captured by a Dutch and English army led by Maurice and Francis Vere respectively.

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