Army of Flanders
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The Army of Flanders was a field army of the Spanish Army based in the Spanish Netherlands between the 16th and 18th centuries. It was one of the longest-serving field armies of the early modern era,
The Army of Flanders' deployment for the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600).
The Army of Flanders taking Maastricht in 1579
Mutinous troops of the Army of Flanders ransack the Grote Markt during the Sack of Antwerp, in a Dutch engraving of 1576 by Franc Hogenburg.
The Battle of White Mountain, 1620, a triumph for the Army of Flanders and the Army of the Catholic League.
Ambrogio Spinola
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Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases and 1st Duke of Sesto was an Italian nobleman and military leader in the service of the Spanish Empire. He distinguished himself in several key eng
Portrait by Peter Paul Rubens (1627)
Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola by Anthony van Dyck
Ambrogio Spinola, Painted before 1630 in Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi.
Ambrogio on horseback at the Siege of Julich