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The Surrender of Breda depicts the moment on the fifth of June, 1625, when the Dutch general Justin Nassau surrendered the Dutch town of Breda to Spanish forces led by General Ambrosio Spínola.

The first decades of the seventeenth century were marked by the Protestant Netherland s fierce bid for independence from Catholic Spain. For the Catholic realms of Europe, Breda was suspiciously regarded as a breeding ground for heretical Protestants from all over the continent, a kind of finishing school where they could go to perfect their military skills.