Siege of Breda (1637) Siege of Breda (1637) The Fifth Siege of Breda (21 July – 11 October 1637) was an important siege in the Eighty Years' War in which stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange retook the city of Breda, which had last changed hands in 1625 when the Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola conquered it for the Spanish Habsburgs. Hereafter, the city would remain in the hands of the Dutch Republic until the end of the war. In 1635 France and the Dutch Republic formed an alliance against Spain with the objective of conquering and partitioning the Spanish Netherlands. They invaded on two
Breda, Iowa Breda, Iowa Breda is a city in Carroll County, Iowa, United States. The population was 483 at the 2010 census. Breda had its start in the year 1877 by the building of the Maple branch of the Chicago and North Western railroad through that territory. It was named after the Dutch city of Breda by a settler native to that place. Breda is located at (42.182147, -94.977999). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 483 people, 211 households, and 135