Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) Spanish painter. The Surrender of Breda, or The Lances. Oil on canvas, Siege of Breda is the name for two major sieges of the Eighty Years' War and Thirty Years' War. The Dutch fortress city of Breda fell to a Spanish army under Ambrosio Spinola in 1625; it was retaken by Frederick Henry of Orange in the 1637 Siege of Breda

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Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) Spanish painter. The Surrender of Breda, or The Lances. Oil on canvas, Siege of Breda is the name for two major sieges of the Eighty Years' War and Thirty Years' War. The Dutch fortress city of Breda fell to a Spanish army under Ambrosio Spinola in 1625; it was retaken by Frederick Henry of Orange in the 1637 Siege of Breda

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