“It seems that God is Spanish in working such a great miracle.” In the Battle or Miracle of Empel, the soldiers of the Spanish Tercios confronted a flotilla of Dutch ships, which is one of the most unusual and iconic acts of arms of the Eighty Years War....
On June 5, 1625, the Dutch city of Breda surrendered to the Army of Flanders under the Genovese Ambrogio Spinola after ten months of siege. The siege of Breda was an event of magnificent proportions that attracted the attention of the whole of Europe and had great...
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