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When was Alexander Farnese born?

  • 1545

  • 1550

  • 1535

  • 1560

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Alexander Farnese was born in 1545. He was an Italian military commander and statesman who served as the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592. Farnese was a skilled military leader and is best known for his successful campaigns against the Dutch rebels during the Eighty Years' War. He also played a key role in the Spanish Armada's invasion of England in 1588.
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