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Battle of Gembloux
The Battle of Gembloux marked a terrible defeat for the Protestant rebels fighting against Spain in the Eighty Years' War. On January 31 1578, an advance force of 1,200 men from the main Spanish army of 20,000 men attacked the retreating Netherlandish army of around 20,000 men.
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