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Destruction of Neuss

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demanded his blood. Soldiers found Cloedt and the dying man was hanged from the window, along with several dozen others in his force. Italian and Spanish soldiers, on their rampage through the city, slaughtered the rest of the garrison, even the men who tried to surrender. Women, who had taken refuge in some of the churches, were initially spared, but when the fire started, they were forced into the street. Contemporary accounts refer to children, women, and old men, their clothes in sparks or flames, trying to escape the conflagration, only to be trapped by the enraged soldiers; if they escaped the flames and the Spanish, they still had to elude the Italians. Parma wrote to the king (of Spain) that over 4000 lay dead in the ditches. English observers confirmed this report, and elaborated that only 8 buildings remained standing.
1573:, plus 2,000 mounted, experienced Italian, Spanish, and some German soldiers, plus some 45 cannons, which Parma distributed on the redoubt across the river, and on the heights some short distance from the city walls. Prior to the cannonade, Parma requested the capitulation of the city, which was declined, officially with great politeness, but as Parma's emissary returned to the Spanish camp, he was followed by jeers and insults from the townsmen. The next day, being the feast of St. James, and the patron day for the Spanish, the battle was not joined, however, reports circulated in the Spanish camp that two soldiers, captured in the previous days' sorties, had been roasted alive in the market square to desecrate the Holy day. 1562: 1577: 162: 135: 216: 177: 1509:, an important Protestant garrison in the Electorate of Cologne. After the city refused to capitulate, Parma's army reduced the city to rubble through a combination of artillery fire, destructive house-to-house fighting, and plundering; during the battle, a fire started that destroyed most of the rest of the city. Approximately 3,000 civilians died, out of a population of around 4,500, and the entire garrison was killed. 196: 150: 79: 1593:
Cloedt, gravely injured (his leg was reportedly nearly ripped off and he had five other serious wounds), had been carried into the town. The Spanish and Italian forces entered the town from opposing ends, and met in the middle. Parma was reportedly inclined to honor the garrison commander; Ernst
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Once the cannonade began, Parma's 45 artillery pounded at the walls for 30 hours with iron cannonballs weighing 30 to 50 pounds, in total 2700 rounds were fired. The Spanish made several attacks, each repelled. With the ninth assault, the outer wall was breached, and soldiers
1606:; Parma had lost fewer than 500 of his own force, and the Protestant rebels had lost a significant geographical and militarily strategic point, and one of their more intrepid young commanders in Cloedt. Parma had nearly unfettered access to the Electorate's northern regions, called the 1545:
of Burgundy, and for its efforts, the emperor had granted Neuss the right to mint its own coins and to incorporate the imperial arms in its own coat of arms. In June, the Duke of Parma approached the city and surrounded its landed fortifications; he was supported by
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Although Parma had taken the city, his Protestant opponents took some comfort in the fact that the city had been destroyed in the process and was of no use as a garrison. Yet this was in no way a
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in command of the city. Cloedt had a garrison of 1600 men, mostly Germans and Dutch soldiers; some had military experience, but many were recent recruits. One hundred years earlier it had
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poured into the city, the Italians from one end, and the Spanish from the other. They met in the marketplace in the middle (see map of the city—above).
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Parma had an impressive force at his command; in addition to Mansfeld's 2000 troops, he had another 6,000 or so foot and
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The Electorate of Cologne, circa 1580. The City of Cologne, although part of the archdiocese, was not part of the Electorate.
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unchallenged possession, Parma continued to acquire and fortify towns throughout the region.
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Neuss had been seized by supporters of the Protestant Prince-Elector
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Der Kampf um das Erzstift Köln zur Zeit der Kurfürsten.
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Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland: Der Kampf um Köln,
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Destruction of Neuss (July 1586)
51°12′1″N 6°41′38″E / 51.20028°N 6.69389°E / 51.20028; 6.69389
Cologne War
Destruction of Neuss
Neuss
Ernest of Bavaria
Electorate of Cologne
Gebhard Truchsess
Cologne
Dutch Republic
Dutch States Army
Electorate of Cologne
Ernest of Bavaria
Cologne
Spanish Empire
Army of Flanders
Dutch Republic
Hermann Friedrich Cloedt

Spanish Empire
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
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Cologne War
Oberstift
Godesberg
1st Bonn
1st Rheinberg
Gelsenkirchen

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