In 1618 Descartes was in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the ruler of what's now this Low Country
In 1534 Henry III of Nassau-Breda rebuilt the modest 
medieval ... Breda fell back into the hands of the Dutch and Maurice of Nassau, 
when a 68 .... it was there, in 1618, that the young Ren Descartes (at the time, a 
soldier in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau) first met, and had... [DOC] [TLE] The Dutch Republic in the 17th century - ringlingdocents.org [PAR] the Netherlands or Low Countries roughly were comprised of what we today call 
.... who came accompanied by an army of 10,000 men in 1567 ....