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The years 1579–1588 constituted a phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the United Provinces in revolt after most of them concluded the Union of Utrecht on 23 January 1579, and proceeded to carve the independent Dutch Republic out of the Habsburg Netherlands.
The origins of the Eighty Years' War are complicated, and have been a source of disputes amongst historians for centuries. [ 1 ] The Habsburg Netherlands emerged as a result of the territorial expansion of the Burgundian State in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Sidney Bradshaw Fay, circa 1922. Sidney Bradshaw Fay (April 13, 1876, in Washington, D.C. – August 29, 1967, in Lexington, Massachusetts) was an American historian whose examination of the causes of World War I, The Origins of the World War (1928; revised edition 1930), remains a classic study.
2:15 p.m.: German infantry prisoners are taken to Omaha Beach. 10:30 p.m.: British troops liberate town of Arromanches-les-Bains. Midnight: All five beaches at Normandy are declared secure.
Over fifty years ago on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared to the Washington press corps that America had a new enemy—narcotics. “America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon ...
The book has picked up praise from several publications. Alongside support from The Economist, [1] positive reviews came from The Daily Beast, where historian Michael Korda lauded it as written "superbly well" and stated that Roberts' "scholarship is superb", [2] and The Wall Street Journal, where historian Jonathan W. Jordan argued that Roberts "splendidly weaves a human tragedy into a story ...
The 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge reminds us that appeasing tyrants never works. The U.S. must continue to stand strong against tyrants like Vladimir Putin to keep America safe.
The rebels, who initiated their first actions of physical force during the Beeldenstorm (August–October 1566, initially mostly directed at Catholic Church property rather than governmental forces) started out as disparate riotous mobs of poorly armed and poorly trained but well-organised Calvinists, originally predominantly from industrial centres in western Flanders. [3]