Siege of Breda
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The <entity_2> (<entity_6> – <entity_4>) was an important <entity_0> in which stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange retook the city of <entity_9>, which had last <entity_1> when the Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola <entity_1> for the Spanish Habsburgs. In 1635 France and the <entity_5> formed an alliance against Spain with the objective of conquering and partitioning the Spanish <entity_7>. <entity_9> was the capital city of the baronial fief that had once been the crown jewel in the Dutch estates of the Nassau family in the Habsburg <entity_7> before the war started. The <entity_10> was preceded by an attempt to surprise the garrison on <entity_6> by Dutch cavalry under Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz. Unlike the strategy adopted by Ambrosio Spinola at <entity_1>, Frederick Henry did not plan on a passive <entity_10>, aimed at starving the fortress, but intended a more aggressive approach. Though Spain almost managed to capture the important fortress of Rheinberg from the Dutch a month after the fall of <entity_9>, the campaign season of <entity_11> was now over. Frederick Henry made an attempt to capture Antwerp, but his advance guard was caught in the open by a crack Spanish force on 20 June 1638 and defeated in the only pitched <entity_8> of the second part of the <entity_3> at Kallo.
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