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 Hollander had Fortified it too strong with Ordnance, and after one houres Fight, the Sconce forced his Excellency and the Governour of Antwerpe to leave their intended enterprize, and afterwards the whole Body meeting, they marched towards Breda. The Governor of Breda having intelligence of his Excellencies comming towards the Towne, forthwith commanded the Drummes to beate up, thereby proclayming and charging the Burgers and Souldiers that were in the Towne, to be in a readinesse against his Excellencies comming, which was neere upon Five thousand Burgers and Souldiers, besides Five hundred of Horse.

Then his Excellencies Army marching neere Breda was intercepted, and his passage stop't, and almost a whole day kept them in fight with Musketiers, onely at length there was a fresh supply of the Hollanders neere upon ten thousand more which came from the Busse, and they placed themselves in the reare of his Excellencies Army between Macklin and Bridges, and the Breda Burgers and Souldiers in the Front, where on the morning as soone as the day appeared, they had a great skirmish, and tooke divers great Persons prisoners, whereof the Governour of Castile was one, and slew neere upon six thousand of Horse and Foote, and forced the rest to flye, and for their more nimblenesse of body they throwed downe their Armes, and the Hollanders following them so close, that they drived his Excellency and his Army