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How 700 Spaniards Used 'Ice Walking' to SLAY 5,000 Rebels | Miracle of Empel

They thought it was a siege—until the river froze. At dawn, 700 starving Spanish soldiers let 5,000 Dutch rebels celebrate their "trapped prey" while secretly testing ice thickness with pike shafts. Signal prayers masked tactical preparation, weight-distribution columns formed in darkness, and silent tercio veterans walked across frozen water to swarm sleeping warships. Sentries went down first; banners were raised; fifteen vessels captured before alarm sounded. Then the ice became the weapon—Spanish formations herding furious Dutch counterattacks toward fault lines and thin sections while arquebusiers shredded packed columns and captured cannons turned on shore positions. Ice cracked, formations collapsed, and an army advancing in coordinated assault was suddenly drowning in freezing water. In just three brutal hours, the numbers flipped: 700 casualties for the Dutch, 40 for the Spanish, and an "unstoppable" siege force retreating from frozen hell. One night, one freeze—700 Spaniards turning physics into victory and 5,000 rebels into chaos. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell 🔔 so you never miss the most impossible tactical victories in history!