Siege of Breda (1590)
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The Siege of Breda was an extremly short battle of the Eighty Years' War during which a Dutch army led by Maurice of Nassau captured the heavily protected city of Breda in an ingenius way. The Dutch commander was informed that a ship carying peat to the city was never checked by the Spanish soldiers. Together with the ships captain he thought of a plan which involved 70 Dutch soldiers hiding in the peat. The plan worked and the city was taken with an absolute minimum of casualties on the Dutch side.
nl:Turfschip van Breda
