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Frederick Henry and Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz at the Siege of ’s Hertogenbosch  1629

by Pauwels van Hillegaert

Prince Frederick Henry and his cousin Count Ernst Casimir pose triumphantly on their horses before [br]’s-Hertogenbosch. Frederick Henry points his commander’s staff at the Habsburg-occupied city now being stormed by Dutch forces. It was not for nothing that he was nicknamed ‘the conqueror of cities’. He captured a series of cites from the Spanish. The retaking of ‘s-Herto...
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Courtesy of Rijksmuseum