Siege of Rheinberg (1601)

Siege of Rheinberg (1601)
	Part of the Eighty Years' War & the Anglo–Spanish War
	; Siege of Rheinberg 1601 from the Atlas Van Loon
Date	12 June – 2 August 1601
Location	Rheinberg & Meurs; (present-day Germany)51°32′48″N 6°36′02″E / 51.5466°N 6.6005°E
Result	Dutch and English victory
Belligerents
Dutch Republic; England; Scotland	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Maurice of Orange; Robert Bertie	Luis Bernardo de Avila (Rheinberg); Herman van den Bergh (Relief)
Strength
10,000	3,000 (Rheinberg); 5,200 (Relief)
Casualties and losses
400 killed or wounded	~3,500 killed, wounded, or captured

The siege of Rheinberg, also known as the Rhine campaign of 1601, was the siege of the towns of Rheinberg (Old Dutch: Rijnberk) and Meurs from 12 June to 2 August 1601 during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War. Maurice of Orange with an Anglo-Dutch army besieged the Spanish-held cities in part to distract them before their impending siege at Ostend. Rheinberg, an important city, eventually capitulated on 28 July after a Spanish relief force under Herman van den Bergh failed to relieve the city. The towns of Meurs surrendered soon after.