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Siege during the Franco-Dutch War

Siege of Bonn

Date	3–12 November 1673
Location	near Bonn, present-day Germany
Result	Allied victory

Belligerents

Dutch Republic

Holy Roman Empire

Spain

France

Electorate of Cologne

Commanders and leaders

William III of Orange

Menno van Coehoorn

Raimondo Montecuccoli

Johann von Sporck

Von Landsberg

Reveillon

Strength

60,000 men

2,000 men

Casualties and losses

Unknown

v t e Franco-Dutch War
Low Countries and Lower Rhine Groenlo Bredevoort Tolhuis Groningen Aardenburg Coevorden Woerden 1st Maastricht Staphorst Naarden Bonn Seneffe Grave 2nd Maastricht Valenciennes Cassel Cambrai Ghent Ypres Saint-Denis Upper Rhine Sinsheim Entzheim Mulhouse Turckheim Salzbach Altenheim Konzer Brücke Trier Philippsburg Kochersberg Freiburg Rheinfelden Ortenbach France Besançon Noirmoutier Southern Italy 1st Messina North Germany and Scandinavia Brandenburg Rathenow Nauen Fehrbellin Bremen-Verden Gotland Christianstad Halmstad Lund Malmö Landskrona Marstrand Conquest of Jemtland Uddevalla Warksow Rügen Stralsund Great Sleigh Drive Pyrenees Maureillas Espouilles Americas Dutch Raid on North America 1st Curaçao New Netherland Acadia Martinique Naval battles Action of 12 March 1672 Solebay First and Second Schooneveld James River Texel Masulipatnam Málaga 2nd Messina Stromboli Augusta Bornholm Öland Palermo Tobago Møn Køge Bay Wissant

Franco-Dutch War

Low Countries and Lower Rhine

Upper Rhine

France

Southern Italy

1st Messina

North Germany and Scandinavia

Pyrenees

Americas

Naval battles

The siege of Bonn took place from 3 to 12 November 1673 in Bonn, present day Germany, during the Franco-Dutch War. Having forced the armies of Louis XIV to retreat, the Dutch in 1673 went on the offensive. At Bonn, a garrison consisting of troops from France and the Electorate of Cologne, this garrison was poorly equipped and had poor defenses.

The allied troops led by William II of Orange, Menno van Coehoorn and Raimondo Montecuccoli started to besiege the city. William and his forces arrived before the city on 5 November, while Raimondo and his army set up camps and trenches the day before. Both armies successfully united without any French intervention. The allied forces besieged the city until the 12th of November when the French commander announced his surrender. The siege was successful in cutting off French supply lines, which meant that their war in the Dutch Republic could no longer be properly supplied. Because of this, the Dutch army recaptured Naarden and Grave from the French, leaving only Maastricht under French occupation.

The city of Bonn would be besieged again in 1689 and 1703.

Notes

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Stieve 1893, pp. 266–267.
Panhuysen 2009, p. 395.
Nimwegen 2020, p. 134.
^ Fruin 1972, p. 337.

References

Felix Stieve (1893), "Sporck, Johann Graf von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 35, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 264–267
Panhuysen, Luc (2009). Rampjaar 1672: Hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte. Uitgeverij Atlas. ISBN 9789045013282.
Nimwegen, Olaf van (2020). De Veertigjarige Oorlog 1672-1712: de strijd van de Nederlanders tegen de Zonnekoning (in Dutch). Prometheus. ISBN 978-9044638714.
Fruin, Robert (1972). De oorlog van 1672 (E-book ed.). Wolters-Noordhof. ISBN 9789001324155.

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