August 1624 – June 5, 1625 · Brabant Theater
August 1624 – June 5, 1625
When the truce lapsed, Spinola invested Breda — the Orange family's own town — and took it after eleven months of siege lines, mines, and starvation. He then granted the garrison full honours of war and, in the scene Velázquez painted, prevented Justin of Nassau from kneeling to him. It cost Spain a fortune and most of a campaigning season.
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