In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years'_War" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eighty Years' War">Eighty Years' War</a>, the <i id="mwJw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geuzen" id="mwKA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Geuzen">Watergeuzen</a></i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Brielle" id="mwKQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Capture of Brielle">capture Brielle</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Provinces" id="mwKg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Seventeen Provinces">Seventeen Provinces</a>, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" id="mwKw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a>.<sup about="#mwt36" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_1#cite_note-4" id="mwLA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwLQ">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt33" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMultiple_Authors2013">Multiple Authors (17 September 2013). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k_GxAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT97" id="mwB5s" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB5w">Early Modern Wars 1500–1775</i></a>. Amber Books Ltd. p.<span id="mwB50" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>97. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB54" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB58" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-78274-121-3" id="mwB6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78274-121-3"><bdi id="mwB6E">978-1-78274-121-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt33" class="Z3988" id="mwB6I" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Early+Modern+Wars+1500%E2%80%931775&amp;rft.pages=97&amp;rft.pub=Amber+Books+Ltd&amp;rft.date=2013-09-17&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-78274-121-3&amp;rft.au=Multiple+Authors&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dk_GxAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT97&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+1"></span></span>