Siege of Frankenthal

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The siege of Frankenthal was a siege of the Palatinate campaign during the Thirty Years' War. A Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba besieged the Palatinate fortified city of Frankenthal and its mostly English garrison commanded by John Burroughs. The siege lasted from 1621 to March 20, 1623, when King James I ordered the city to surrender.

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Eigen- und Wirtschaftsbetrieb Frankenthal (Pfalz)

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67227 (Frankenthal Kernstadt)
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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