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| Siege of Bonn | |||||||||
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| Part ofNine Years' War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Brandenburg Dutch Republic |  France Cologne | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Frederick IIIHans Adam von SchöningAdriaan van Flodroff | Alexis Bidal Marquis d'Asfeld (DOW) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 30,000 100 guns 46 mortars 4 howitzers | 8,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 4,000 | 6,500 killed, wounded and sick | ||||||||
Thesiege of Bonn took place in 1689 during theNine Years' War when the forces ofBrandenburg-Prussia and theDutch Republic besieged and capturedBonn. It was part of theRhineland campaign which Brandenburg was fighting as part of theGrand Alliance againstLouis XIV of France. Following Louis' incursions into the Rhineland the previous year, a coalition of nations had formed to resist French hegemony.
In Germany this involved an advance into the territory of France's ally theElectorate of Cologne, while to the west the large field armies ofWaldeck andHumières were manoeuvring against each other. Waldeck, the overall commander of the Allied forces, was wary of taking any offensive action against the French until he received reinforcements from Rhineland, but the Brandenburg forces concentrated on their own operations in Cologne. In June 1689 Brandenburg tookKaiserswerth, leaving Bonn as the only major settlement in Cologne not in Allied hands.[1] Bonn was already under threat and ablockade had been imposed on it.
On 11 July the Allied commandersHans Adam von Schöning andAdriaan van Flodroff captured a key fort close to Bonn, and eleven days later the main Allied field army arrived outside Bonn. Batteries opened fire on 24 July, but a formal siege did not begin until 16 September. On 12 October the defenders surrendered after a very heavy bombardment that left much of Bonn in ruins.
In 1703 Bonn againcame under siege during theWar of the Spanish Succession.
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