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Siege of Breda Begins

Spain · Warfare / Eighty Years' War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1624

Ambrogio Spinola28 August 1624

Breda · Warfare / Eighty Years' War

Spinola opened the prolonged Spanish siege of Breda with a large encircling army.

Names involved

Ambrogio Spinola

Provenance

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