Siege of Dorsten
{'<entity_0>': "Thirty Years' War", '<entity_1>': '19 September 1641', '<entity_2>': 'Siege of Dorsten', '<entity_3>': '16 July 1641', '<entity_4>': 'Dorsten', '<entity_5>': 'siege'}
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The <entity_2> (German: Belagerung von <entity_4>) was a military conflict that lasted from <entity_3> to <entity_1> during the <entity_0> in Europe. On <entity_3> a second <entity_5> of the town of <entity_4> was begun by imperial Field Marshal Melchior, Count of Hatzfeldt and imperial Feldzeugmeister, Alexander II of Velen, with some 20,000 soldiers. In a letter from the imperial Generalwachtmeister, Freiherr von Wendt, dated <entity_3>, to the mayor and town council of Recklinghausen, he demanded the following supplies for the provision of his soldiers outside <entity_4>: 3,000 pounds of bread, 16 tonnes of beer, four head of cattle, 15 sacks of oats and several "kitchen items". The <entity_5> ended on <entity_1>. The Theatrum Europaeum recorded that the town of <entity_4> had become a "lamentable ruin" as a result of the <entity_5>.
['battle', 'siege']