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Siege of Breda (1637)
| Siege of Breda (1637) | |||||||
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| Part of the Eighty Years' War | |||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Breda.gif) Surrender of Breda by Johannes Hinderikus Egenberger. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Dutch Republic |
 Spain | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Frederick Henry Henry Casimir |
Gomar de Fourdin | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 18,000 | 2,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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850 dead 1,300 wounded[1] | Unknown | ||||||
The fourth siege of Breda (21 July – 11 October 1637) was an important siege in the Eighty Years' War in which stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange retook the city of Breda, which had last changed hands in 1625 when the Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola conquered it for the Spanish Habsburgs. Hereafter, the city would remain in the hands of the Dutch Republic until the end of the war.
- ^ Poelhekke, p. 491
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