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==Arrinconado en Werl==
[[File:Cologne War 1.svg|thumb|left|alt=Mapa mostrando el territorio del Electorado, el detalle muestra la ubicación del electorado en el norte de Europa|El Electorado de Colonia, circa 1580. La ciudad de Colonia, aunque formaba parte de la archidiocesis, no formaba parte del Electorado.]]
Luego de saquear [[Vest Recklinghausen]], el 1 de marzo Schenck capturó [[Werl]] mediante una maniobra que denota su astucia. Hizo cargar un conjunto de carretas con sus soldados y los cubrió con sal un elemento valorado en esa época. Cuando las carretas con sal se presentaron a las puertas de la ciudad, los guardias abrieron los portones y las hicieron entrar en el pueblo. A continuación los "soldados salados" se impusieron sobre los guardias y capturaron el pueblo.<ref>Hennes, p. 157.</ref> Algunos de los defensores lograron escapar de Werl. Schenck y sus tropas asolaron el pueblo varias veces, fueron rechazados.
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Count Claude von Berlaymount, also known as [[Haultpenne]], collected his force of 4000 y sitio a Schenck en Werl, rodeando la ciudad con su artillería pesada y tropas de caballería. Although he had a seemingly overwhelming force against Schenck's mere 500 or so soldiers, he was reluctant to shell the town. Although Schenck y Cloedt were surrounded outside, and attacked inside from the several hundred guards in the Werl citadel. They tried to break out once, but were forced back into the city, leaving some 50 of their own soldiers outside the gates when they were shut; these soldiers then escaped into the forest, and attacked several nearby farmsteads, waiting for their commanders to break out again.<ref>Hennes, p. 158–59.</ref>
Inside the fortress Cloedt and Schenck loaded their wagons, this time with all their booty, took 30 magistrates as hostages, and attacked Haultpenne's force, killing about 500 of them, and losing 200 of their own. After fighting their way through Haultpenne's force, they made their way to Kettwick, and crossed the Rhine above Dortmund. Cloedt
==Resultado==
Para Schenck, la batalla, y la campaña en Westfalia, fue un éxito. He entered Westphalia as a soldier of fortune, and he left as a soldier with a fortune. Once he crossed the Rhine, he deposited his fortune and his wife in Venlo, and went to [[Delft]] to report to the [[Philip William, Prince of Orange]]. Alli, [[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester|Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester]], el Governor-General ingles de los neerlandeses, lo
Para Gebhard,
In the larger picture of the Cologne War, the failure of the Westphalia campaign and Schenck's retreat from Werl marked the beginning of the end for Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg's tenure as archbishop and prince-elector
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