Count Henry III of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz (12 January 1483, Siegen – 14 September 1538, Breda), Lord (from 1530 Baron) of Breda, Lord of the Lek, of Dietz, etc. was a count of the House of Nassau.
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Upon the death of his uncle in 1504 Henry inherited the Nassau possessions in the Netherlands, including the wealthy lordship of Breda in the duchy of Brabant.
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A Dutch skipper from Leur, Adriaen van Bergen devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War.
In 1826, he taught at the Collège royal at Echternach in Luxembourg before moving to Breda in the Netherlands in 1828 where he worked at the newly opened Royal Military Academy.
After junctions with the N-II and AP-7 (junction 9) the road follows the river valley below Montseny passing through Maçanet de la Selva, Hostalric, Breda, Sant Celoni before ending at junction 12 of the AP-7 and the Autovia C-60.
Ing Cesare Pallavicino of the Breda company led the design and development of the Ba.33.
It was armed with three 7.7-millimeter (0.303-inch) Breda-SAFAT machine guns.
A modern "San Giorgio" reflector gunsight was fitted, and there was even a provision to mount a 20 mm cannon instead of the central Breda-SAFAT machine gun in the nose.
Broadcast Television Systems was a joint venture between Robert Bosch GmbH's Fernseh Division and Philips Broadcast in Breda, Netherlands formed in 1986.
Van Breda Kolff also spent time running a women’s professional team and later coached a high school team in Picayune, Mississippi.
Three 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Breda (or Scotti) machine guns were fitted - one in the left wing, one in a dorsal turret and one in the ventral position.
It was designed to carry twice the offensive armament of the F.5, with four instead of two 12.7-millimeter (0.5-inch) Breda-SAFAT machine guns; the prototype F.6M flew with two of these mounted in the fuselage and provision for two more in the wings, although the wing guns never were mounted.
Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (1762 Breda-Resa near Hanover - 25 September 1835 "Lichtenstein" near Bedford, Eastern Cape ), a German soldier, artist and naturalist arrived in the Cape Colony in the service of the Dutch East India Company in 1784, and was probably a member of the Württemberg Regiment.
Desperately trying to reach his home, which is just a few blocks away, Ceccarelli is cut down in a hail of German fire, at which time Innocenzi decides that the real war to be waged is that against the Nazi occupiers and joins an insurgent band offering to man the Breda M 37 machine gun they have captured but cannot operate.
He was the son of Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, (Genoa, Italy, 1569 - 25 September 1630), 1st duke of Sesto, (title awarded in Naples on 2 April 1612), granted the Grandee of Spain on 17 December 1621 with his marquisate, Conqueror of Breda, 1623, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, also a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1631, and Giovanetta Bacciadone y Doria (1597–1615).
Another tribute to her character came from the diplomat Henry Coventry, who was then engaged in the peace negotiations at Breda, and wrote that the news of Frances's serious illness made him "very unfit for the business".
The chief military exploits of Frederick Henry were the sieges and captures of Grol in 1627, 's-Hertogenbosch in 1629, of Maastricht in 1632, of Breda in 1637, of Sas van Gent in 1644, and of Hulst in 1645.
During the early to mid-1930s, he worked as a test pilot for Italian aircraft manufacturers Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica (CNA) and Breda.
The Dutch, led by Maurice of Nassau, the son of William the Silent and perhaps the greatest strategist of his time, had succeeded in taking a number of border cities since 1590, including the fortress of Breda.
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The war with the Netherlands was renewed in 1621 with Spinola taking the fortress of Breda in 1625.
Johannes Adrianus Maria (Hans) van Tongeren (18 January 1955, Breda - 25 August 1982, Amsterdam) was a Dutch movie actor, who made his debut in the 1980 Paul Verhoeven movie Spetters.
The name of the castle is bound to the sobriquet, the Fury of Haultepenne, when the army of Claude de Berlaymont (1550-1586) overran the Breda following a siege in 1581.
Arnold Heertje, a Dutch economist, professor (at the University of Amsterdam), writer and columnist (born Breda, 19 February 1934)
Henry III of Nassau-Breda was appointed stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht by Emperor Charles V in the beginning of the 16th century.
More heavily armed than its predecessor, with five forward-firing MG 151s; three in the nose and two under the belly (the underbelly guns were not present during the first flight tests) and one 12.7 mm rear-facing Breda-SAFAT machine gun.
Born in Breda, De Jong began his career with Gloria UC and moved to NAC Breda in 2004 after he was scouted.
Driven from Emmerich by King Frederick William III of Prussia at the insistence of the French government, which regarded him as a conspirator, he retired to Borken in the Prince-Bishopric of Münster (1801), and, after the suppression of this principality, to Breda, where he died.
After pre-university education at Newmancollege in Breda and a preparatory course for higher education in forestry and natural resources management, she decided to work—again as a volunteer—with Stichting Kollektief Rampenplan, an organic-vegetarian catering collective that supports actions and events throughout Europe by cooking for activists.
Hendrik Ludolph van Oyen began his military career at the cadet school in Alkmaar from 1906, then, until 1911, at the Royal Military Academy in Breda.
The ship was built in 1983 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Ōshima, Japan, for Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock Express Shipping to become Breda-based offshore heavy lifting group Dockwise Shipping B.V. The vessel capsized in 1999 and was scrapped in 2000.
In 1240, King James I of Aragon granted the land to Pere de Breda, though by 1309, it was once again a possession of the crown.
Gerhard Christiaan Coenraad (Gerrit) Pels Rijcken (10 January 1810, Princenhage – 2 May 1889, Breda) was an officer of the Dutch Navy and a politician.
They then made a Grand Tour to Antwerp, Mechelen, Lion, Brussels, Breda and Strasbourg and then to Buchsweiler (now: Bouxwiller in France), the "capital" of Hanau-Lichtenberg, where they visited their relatives.
Saltires are also seen in several other flags, including the flags of Grenada, Jamaica, Alabama, Florida, Jersey, Logroño, Vitoria, Amsterdam, Breda, Katwijk, Potchefstroom and Valdivia.
He served many years in the army in Flanders, where he was one of the Spanish military leaders in the siege of Breda and a member of the Council of War.
Skil's European factory was built in 1961 in the Dutch town of Breda, followed soon after by an electric motor plant at Eindhoven, Netherlands.
In the past it was the main city of the region, with roads to Roosendaal to the west, Breda to the east, Rotterdam to the north and Antwerp to the south.
The sandstone towers that characterised the west front were closely related to those of the cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula in Brussels, and of the Grote Kerk in Breda, in the Netherlands, as well as of the Basilica of Our Lady in Tongeren.
The Zari brothers' factory in Bovisio Mombello, Milan, manufactured the Tebaldi-Zari prototype in 1919, but Breda soon bought both the prototype and the design rights to the aircraft from Zari.
In 1992 N.V. Philips, Breda received the Outstanding Achievement in Technical/Engineering Development Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Triaxial cable Technology for Color Television Cameras.
Believing the Dutch would therefore be more inclined to remain inactive, Charles II of England delayed the peace negotiations at Breda though he lacked the money in 1667 to put out a fleet.
In 1930 Jos en Maurice Van Breda, two brothers from Lier, founded Bank J.Van Breda & C°.
Jan van Breda Kolff, an American basketball player and coach, son of Butch van Breda Kolff
The university is currently active in four countries, working from her branches in the Netherlands (Breda and Bergen op Zoom), Surinam (Paramaribo), Russia (Rostov and Taganrog) and Aruba.
Early designs such as the Ilot Saint Maurice in Lille and the Chassé Apartment towers, Breda, exemplify his capacity for innovative architectural design.