Pugna ad Engelam, Anno 1587 

• Copper engraving 
• Topografie Nederland 

Copper engraving, maker unknown, after a print by François Collignon, after a design by Michelangelo Cerquozzi. Published in Rome in 1651, in: "F. Strada, De Bello belgico decades duae auctiores et correctiores cum figuris encis prodeunt a Famiano Strada Soc: Jesu Romano Moguntiae". Depiction of the Battle of Engelen in the Kempen near Den Bosch, on July 13, 1587. Troops from Hohenlohe defend a fortified redoubt at Engelen (later reinforced and renamed Crèvecoeur). Haultepenne is killed in the battle, his body is carried away at the front right. At the top of the title, in the caption the legend A-O in Latin. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2014.

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