In what battle did Sir Philip Sidney suffer a mortal wound?

Sir Philip Sidney suffered a mortal wound in The Battle of Zutphen in 1586.

The author of Arcadia (1590) was fighting in the Netherlands against the Spanish.

He was shot in the thigh after lending his leg armor to another soldier. He died of infection three weeks later, at the age of thirty-two.

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