Battle of Empel

Miracle of Empel
Part of the Eighty Years' War

El milagro de Empel, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau (2015).
DateDecember 6–8, 1585
Location
Empel, Netherlands, between the Meuse and Waal rivers.
51°43′52″N 5°19′38″E / 51.73111°N 5.32722°E / 51.73111; 5.32722
Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Strength

30,000 men

100–200 ships		 4,000–6,000 men
Casualties and losses
High
Several ships burnt or captured		 Low
Empel
The Netherlands

The Miracle of Empel (Milagro de Empel in Spanish) was an unexpected Spanish victory on December 8, 1585, near Empel, in the Netherlands, as part of the Eighty Years' War, in which a surrounded Spanish force managed to escape an attack by Dutch army and destroyed some of the immobilized Dutch ships when the waters around their island suddenly froze.

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