Breda Castle Breda Castle Breda Castle is a castle in the city of Breda, in the Netherlands. In the 12th century, a fortress was located at Breda. The city of Breda came into existence near the fortress. In 1353, the Duke of Brabant sold Breda to Jan II of Polanen (Baron of Breda). He reinforced the castle with four towers and a channel. His daughter Johanna of Polanen married in 1403 the German count Engelbert I of Nassau. Their son Jan IV of Nassau enlarged the castle. Henry III of Nassau-Breda changed the castle into a Renaissance palace in 1536. He died
Breda Mod. 35 Breda Mod. 35 The Breda Mod. 35 is a hand grenade issued to the Royal Italian Army during World War II. Entered into service in 1935, the Breda Mod. 35, together with the SRCM Mod. 35 and the OTO Mod. 35 represented the new generation of hand grenades with which the Royal Italian Army faced the Second World War. It is an offensive type hand grenade, made up of an aluminium cylindrical body with the two trunk-conical shaped ends of, painted red and loaded with 63 grams of TNT-dinitronaphthalene that at the time of the explosion projects splinters in a