Victory over the Spanish during the naval battle of Gibraltar, 1607 by a Dutch Fleet Commanded by Admiral Jacob van Heemskerck, an armed revolt under the leadership of Protestant William of Orange when the Dutch struggled to gain independence from Spanish rule under the Catholic Philip II.

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