Declaration of Breda Netherlands, and to date his letters as if they were posted from Breda. Charles left Brussels, his last residence in the Spanish Netherlands, and passing through Antwerp arrived in Breda on 4 April, and resided there until 14 May. Then he travelled to The Hague, where he was received by the States General of the Netherlands as a ruling King of England and grandiosely entertained, and departed for England on 2 June from Scheveningen on the "HMS Royal Charles", the former "Naseby" which was renamed on arrival at the Dutch coast. The declaration, however (actually several letters, addressed to Monck,
Capture of Breda (1590) the Italian soldiers garrisoning the city; the attackers killed forty defenders without any loss. So surprised were the Italians and Spanish that they dispersed into a total rout into the streets of the city. Before dawn, Count Hohenlohe arrived at the doors of Breda with the Dutch cavalry and after him Maurice of Nassau with the main body of the army; Count Solms, and Francis Vere being among them. By then the men of Heraugiere had already taken control of most the city. With the Breda garrison completely surrounded and in total confusion Paolo Lanzavecchia negotiated with the attackers the