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Vere, Francis

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Vere, Francis (1560–1609)

English soldier who spent almost his whole adult life (1585–1604) in active military service, mainly against the Spanish in the Netherlands.

Vere played a gallant part in the defence of Sluys (1587), the relief of Rheinberg (1589), the engagements at Breda (1589) and Groningen (1594), the victories at Turnhout (1598) and Nieuport (1600) and the defence of Ostend (1601–02). He was also present at Howard and Essex's raid on the Spanish port of Cádiz in 1596.



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