Qualla: Breda https://qualla.com/breda en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:33 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Breda https://qualla.com/breda Breda: Introduction https://qualla.com/breda/ In 1635, Diego Velazquez painted The Surrender of Breda. The Dutch commander Justinus van Nassau hands over a great key to the Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola, who places a hand on his shoulder almost gently. The painting hangs in the Prado and ranks among the most studied images of seventeenth-century European warfare. The city it depicts sits at the confluence of the Mark and the Aa rivers in southern Netherlands, equidistant from Rotterdam and Antwerp, with 185,000 residents and a long memory. Breda has been besieged, sold, set on fire, surrendered, retaken by men hiding under turf in a peat boat, and surrendered again. The Dutch republic was largely born here.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/m/breda-wp/u15m-breda-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Breda: Sold, Married, and Inherited https://qualla.com/breda/ Breda received its municipal charter in 1252 and began building brick walls and Roman-style gates. In 1327 Adelheid of Gaveren sold the city to the Duke of Brabant. In 1350 it was sold again to Johannes II of Wassenaar. In 1403 his heiress, Johanna of Polanen, married Engelbert I...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/m/breda-wp/u15m-breda-sold-married-and-inherited.mp3 0:06 2 full Breda: A Renaissance Palace North of the Alps https://qualla.com/breda/ The arrival of the House of Orange-Nassau transformed Breda into a residentiestad, a residence city, drawing other nobles who built grand homes along the old quarters. The Italian architect Thomas Vincidor de Bologna designed a palace here for the first Dutch prince, said to be t...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/m/breda-wp/u15m-breda-a-renaissance-palace-north-of-the-alps.mp3 0:06 3 full Breda: The Peat Ship and Haultpenne's Fury https://qualla.com/breda/ In July 1581, during the Eighty Years' War, Spanish troops under Claudius van Barlaymont, known as Haultpenne, captured Breda by surprise. The city surrendered on the promise that it would not be plundered. The soldiers ignored the promise and killed more than five hundred citize...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/m/breda-wp/u15m-breda-the-peat-ship-and-haultpennes-fury.mp3 0:06 4 full Breda: An English King in Exile https://qualla.com/breda/ In 1660 the exiled Stuart heir Charles II was living in Breda, drawn there by his sister Mary, the widow of William II of Orange. From Breda, with strong nudging from Parliamentarian General George Monck, Charles issued the Declaration of Breda, laying out the terms under which h...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/m/breda-wp/u15m-breda-an-english-king-in-exile.mp3 0:06 5 full Breda: Carnival and the General from Poland https://qualla.com/breda/ On 29 October 1944, during Operation Pheasant, the 1st Polish Armoured Division under General Stanislaw Maczek liberated Breda through a flanking maneuver. Each year during Liberation Day, Breda receives a Polish contingent and reserves part of the celebration for the soldiers wh...

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