borkelo

Updated: June 7, 2025

Tassis, lieutenant-governor of Gelderland, was ordered into the city with two cornets of horse and six hundred foot. As large a number, had already been stationed there. Verdugo, who had been awaiting the arrival of the Prince at Borkelo, a dozen miles from Zutphen, with four hundred foot and two hundred horse, now likewise entered the city.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete

In the morning Alexander returned to his camp at Borkelo leaving Tassis in command of the Veluwe Forts, and Verdugo in the city itself and he at once made rapid work in collecting victuals. He had soon wheat and other supplies in readiness, sufficient to feed four thousand mouths for three months, and these he determined to send into the city immediately, and at every hazard.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)

In the morning Alexander returned to his camp at Borkelo leaving Tassis in command of the Veluwe Forts, and Verdugo in the city itself and he at once made rapid work in collecting victuals. He had soon wheat and other supplies in readiness, sufficient to feed four thousand mouths for three months, and these he determined to send into the city immediately, and at every hazard.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete