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The left shore of the Yssel, along its whole length, from Arnhem and Doesburg quite up to Zwoll and Campen, where the river empties itself into the Zuyder Zee, was now sprinkled thickly with forts, hastily thrown up, but strong enough to serve the temporary purpose of the stadholder.
George's Day triumphantly kept at Utrecht Parma not so much appalled as it was thought He besieges and reduces Grave And is Master of the Meuse Leicester's Rage at the Surrender of Grave His Revenge Parma on the Rhine He besieges aid assaults Neusz Horrible Fate of the Garrison and City Which Leicester was unable to relieve Asel surprised by Maurice and Sidney The Zeeland Regiment given to Sidney Condition of the Irish and English Troops Leicester takes the Field He reduces Doesburg He lays siege to Zutphen Which Parma prepares to relieve The English intercept the Convoy Battle of Warnsfeld Sir Philip Sidney wounded Results of the Encounter Death of Sidney at Arnheim Gallantry of Edward Stanley.
He had previously and with great secrecy sent some companies of infantry under Sir Francis Vere to Doesburg. It was not an unusual occurrence.
He had previously and with great secrecy sent some companies of infantry under Sir Francis Vere to Doesburg. It was not an unusual occurrence.
His force was weakened by the withdrawal of Sir Francis Vere with three of the English regiments, Elizabeth having sent peremptory orders that this force should follow those already withdrawn to aid Henry of Navarre in Brittany. Very unwillingly Vere obeyed, and marched to Doesburg on the Yssel.
Leicester, leaving Sir William Stanley, with twelve hundred English and Irish horse, in command of Deventer; Sir John Burrowes, with one thousand men, in Doesburg; and Sir Robert Yorke, with one thousand more, in the great sconce before Zutphen; took his departure for the Hague. Zutphen seemed so surrounded as to authorize the governor to expect ere long its capitulation.
Pieter de Groot and his colleagues were received at Doesburg with scant courtesy and sent back to the Hague to seek for fuller powers. When they arrived they found the council-pensionary lying on a sick-bed. The country's disasters had been attributed to the De Witts, and the strong feeling against them led to a double attempt at assassination.
George feasting, Knewstub sermons, and forces of Hercules, were all finished, the Earl had taken the field with five thousand foot and fifteen hundred horse. His intention was to clear the Yssel; by getting possession of Doesburg and Zutphen, but, hearing of Parma's demonstrations upon Grave, he abandoned the contemplated siege of those cities, and came to Arnheim.
Doesburg having been thus reduced, the Earl now proceeded toward the more important city which he had determined to besiege. Zutphen, or South- Fen, an antique town of wealth and elegance, was the capital of the old Landgraves of Zutphen. It is situate on the right bank of the Yssel, that branch of the Rhine which flows between Gelderland and Overyssel into the Zuyder-Zee.
This step, if successful, would place in the power of the republic and her ally a city of great importance and strength. In every event the attempt would probably compel Farnese to raise the siege of Berg. Leicester, accordingly, with "his brave troop of able and likely men" five thousand of the infantry being English advanced as far as Doesburg.
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