ambassadors to the negotiations at the conclusion of the Twelve Years Truce (1609-1621)The Twelve Years' Truce was the name given to the cessation of hostilities between the Habsburg rulers of Spain and the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch Republic as agreed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609.[1] It was a watershed in the Eighty Years' War, marking the point from which the independence of the United Provinces received formal recognition by outside powers.
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