Sir Francis Vere was an English army officer and politician who served during the reign of Elizabeth I and fought mainly in the Low Countries during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) and the Eighty Years' War.
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The siege of Groningen in 1594
Battle of Turnhout - 1597. English cavalry led by Vere shown on bottom right
Battle of Nieuwpoort, 1600. From The commentaries of Sr. Francis Vere
Siege of Ostend - depiction showing the repulse of the huge Spanish assault of 7 January 1602
Sir Francis Vere's tomb monument in the Chapel of St John the Evangelist in Westminster Abbey, circa 1860In their orbit 1
Politicians born in the 1560s 6
About this person
Sir Francis Vere was an English army officer and politician who served during the reign of Elizabeth I and fought mainly in the Low Countries during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) and the Eighty Years' War. Vere was a sergeant major general of English and Scottish troops in 1589, a position he retained during fifteen campaigns fighting the Spanish, with almost unbroken success - most notably at the Battle of Nieuwpoort. He enjoyed excellent relations with the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau, working in close co-operation with them to help secure the country for the cause of independence.
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