History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce--1609, Volume 4Harper & brothers, 1868 |
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... ships of Fazardo - Courageous conduct of the vice - admiral - Deaths of Justus Lipsius , Hohenlo , and Count John of Nassau .... 254 . CHAPTER XLVI . General desire for peace - Political aspect of Europc - Designs of the kings of ...
... ships of Fazardo - Courageous conduct of the vice - admiral - Deaths of Justus Lipsius , Hohenlo , and Count John of Nassau .... 254 . CHAPTER XLVI . General desire for peace - Political aspect of Europc - Designs of the kings of ...
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... ships , transports , and flat - bottomed barges there were at least thirteen hun- dred . Many eye - witnesses , who ... ship was difficult , and in which enrolment was usually for life . A little republic of scarce three million souls ...
... ships , transports , and flat - bottomed barges there were at least thirteen hun- dred . Many eye - witnesses , who ... ship was difficult , and in which enrolment was usually for life . A little republic of scarce three million souls ...
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... ships or soldiers engaged in the undertaking . Otherwise , and had it been merely a military expedition like a thousand others which have been made and forgotten , it would not now . deserve more than a momentary attention . But the ...
... ships or soldiers engaged in the undertaking . Otherwise , and had it been merely a military expedition like a thousand others which have been made and forgotten , it would not now . deserve more than a momentary attention . But the ...
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... ships having been directed to proceed as fast as the wind would permit in the direction of Nieuport . The march then began . On the 23rd they advanced a league and halted for the night at Assenede . The next day brought them three ...
... ships having been directed to proceed as fast as the wind would permit in the direction of Nieuport . The march then began . On the 23rd they advanced a league and halted for the night at Assenede . The next day brought them three ...
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... ships . While these vehement debates were at the hottest , sails were descried in the offing ; for the archduke's forces already stood upon the edge of the downs . First one ship , then another and another , moved steadily along the ...
... ships . While these vehement debates were at the hottest , sails were descried in the offing ; for the archduke's forces already stood upon the edge of the downs . First one ship , then another and another , moved steadily along the ...
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History of the United Netherlands: from the Death of William the ..., Volume 4 John Lothrop Motley Visualização integral - 1868 |
History of the United Netherlands: from the Death of William the ..., Volume 4 John Lothrop Motley Visualização integral - 1867 |
History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the ..., Volume 4 John Lothrop Motley Visualização integral - 1876 |
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admiral Advocate Aerssens already ambassador archduke's archdukes army Barneveld battle Bentivoglio besieged campaign Catholic cavalry command commissioners commonwealth Contarini crown Deventer duke Dutch Dutch republic enemy England English envoy Europe favour fighting Flanders fleet Fleming florins force France Francis Vere French galleys Gallucci garrison Government Grotius Hague Henry Holland honour hundred Ibid India James Jeannin Kemp King of Spain land Lerma Lewis Gunther Lewis William liberty Majesty Maurice of Nassau Meantime Meteren monarch Nassau negotiations Netherlands never Neyen Nieuport Olden-Barneveld once Ostend party peace Philip political Prince Maurice Priuli ratification Relazione religion republic republican Richardot Rosny royal secret seemed sent seqq ships siege siege of Ostend Sluys soldiers soon Soranzo sovereign sovereignty Spaniards Spanish Spinola stadholder States-General thousand tion town trade treaty troops truce ubi sup United Provinces Vere Verreyken vessels victory Wagenaar whole William the Silent Zeeland
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Página i - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Página 486 - I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet ; yet I will venture the prediction to you, my lords the States-General, that you will bitterly rue it that you did not embrace the peace thus presented, and which you might have had. The blood which is destined to flow, now that you have scorned our plan of reconciliation, will be not on our heads but your own.
Página 32 - Archduke in front, almost within cannon range, he simply observed that they had no choice between victory or death. They must either utterly overthrow the Spanish army, he said, or drink all the waters of the sea. Either drowning or butchery was their doom if they were conquered, for no quarter was to be expected from their insolent foe.