 Vere the following year would command the English army in the Netherlands after Willoughby's resignation and would hold this command for twenty years.He was highly esteemed by the Queen and also by the States General of the United Provinces.Bergen op Zoom would continue to be in English and Dutch hands repulsing further Spanish sieges and attacks over the next forty years most notably during the siege in 1622 in which English troops also played a significant part.