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Events on Wednesday 5 August 1587 1
1587Siege of SluisSpanish forces capture the Dutch port townThe Duke of Parma's Spanish army besieged and captured the fortified port of Sluis in Flanders, overcoming its English and Dutch garrison. The town's fall secured a key harbor for Spain ahead of the planned invasion of England.