1633 battle of the Thirty Years' War
The siege of Rheinfelden of 1633 or the Spanish recapture of Rheinfelden (Spanish : La Expugnación de Rheinfelden) took place in late October 1633, during the Thirty Years' War .[ 1] [ 2]
The Spanish Army of Alsace (20,000 troops)[ 1] Duke of Feria , Governor of the Duchy of Milan , recaptured the Habsburgian city of Rheinfelden after relieving Konstanz , Breisach and Bregenz . His plan, designed by the favourite and chief minister of Philip IV of Spain , Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares , was to release the Spanish road along the Rhine of the harassment by Swedish and Protestant-German troops (Heilbronn League ), defend the Franche-Comté , safeguard the Tyrol , support the troops of the Holy Roman Empire , and open a strategic corridor for the Spanish troops from the Spanish Lombardy to the Spanish Netherlands .[ 1] [ 2]
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^ a b c d Black p.135
^ a b c Parker p.119
^ a b Fajardo, p. 70
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References
Black, Jeremy. European Warfare 1494–1660. Routledge Publishing (2002) ISBN 978-0-415-27531-6
Parker, Geoffrey (1984). The Thirty Years' War. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-415-15458-8
Fajardo, Diego de Saavedra (1986). España y Europa en el siglo XVII: correspondencia de Saavedra Fajardo . 
