Siege of Kaiserswerth

Siege of Kaiserswerth (1702)
Part of the War of the Spanish Succession
The Allied siege plan
Date 18 April – 15 June 1702 (1 month and 4 weeks) Location Kaiserswerth, Germany 51°17′56″N 6°44′28″E / 51.299°N 6.741°E / 51.299; 6.741 Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire  Prussia  Dutch Republic	France
Commanders and leaders
Prince of Nassau-Usingen	Marquis de Blainville
Strength
38,000 men 80 guns 59 mortars 6 howitzers 70 hand-mortars	5,000 men 30 artillery pieces and mortars
Casualties and losses
2,800–9,000 killed and wounded	350 killed and wounded

The siege of Kaiserswerth (18 April – 15 June 1702), was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession. Prussian and Dutch troops numbering 38,000 men and 215 artillery pieces and mortars under the command of Imperial Field Marshal Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, besieged and captured the small French fortress on the Lower Rhine, which the French had occupied without resistance the previous year. The Dutch regarded the capture of this fortification as more important than an advance into the French-held Spanish Netherlands.^[1]