Breda-Prinsenbeek railway station Breda-Prinsenbeek railway station Breda-Prinsenbeek is a railway station located in Prinsenbeek near Breda, Netherlands. The station was opened in 1988 and is located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway. The station is currently operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. These are some of the destinations that are possible to reach from Breda-Prinsenbeek: Breda, Dordrecht, Rotterdam and Den Haag. For more major destinations it is best to travel to Breda. These include: Roosendaal, Tilburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Helmond and Venlo. Travelling to Dordrecht will allow a connection on to a faster train to Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden and Amsterdam. The following services currently call
The Surrender of Breda the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish general, Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola, conquered Breda against the instructions of his superiors. Before its capture, the Spanish government had decided that siege warfare against heavily defended towns of the Low Countries was too wasteful and that they would concentrate instead on an economic blockade of the Dutch Republic. The bulk of Spanish forces were diverted to the unfolding Thirty Years War. Breda, a city near the frontier of Holland proper had been occupied in 1567 by the Duke of Alba, ten years afterwards recovered by Holach, and again seized by Haultepenne. The town