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The Eighty Years' War [i] or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) [j] was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands [k] between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.
In 1632, during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, the area was conquered by the Dutch. [9] In 1648, as part of the terms ending the war, the Lands were agreed to be partitioned but in such a way as to create, what Benjamin J. Kaplan called, a "complex patchwork...with some districts forming isolated islands". [ 10 ]
This is an incomplete list of military and other armed confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Kansas since European contact. The region was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1535–1679, New France from 1679–1803, and part of the United States of America 1803–present.
The Netherlands, as a nation state, dates to 1568, [1] when the Dutch Revolt created the Dutch Empire. Previously, the Germanic tribes had no written language during the ancient and early medieval periods, so what we know about their early military history comes from accounts written in Latin and from archaeology. This causes significant gaps ...
The Second Stadtholderless Period (Dutch: Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk) is the designation in Dutch historiography of the period between the death of stadtholder William III on 19 March [21] 1702 and the appointment of William IV, Prince of Orange as stadtholder and captain general in all provinces of the Dutch Republic on 2 May 1747.
The Siege of Roermond occurred on 2 June until 5 June when a Dutch force of 20,000 men took on a Spanish garrison of around 300 men and forced the garrison to capitulate. Even though the Dutch Army successfully took the city of Roermond , the Dutch still suffered a heavy loss due to the death of Ernest Casimir when he got shot when inspecting a ...
Dutch-Algerian war(1715-1726) [8] Dutch Republic Ottoman Algeria: Victory: Fourth Dutch-Zamorin War (1715-1718) Dutch East India Company: Zamorin of Calicut English East India Company (1715-1717) Victory. Dutch annexation of Pappinivattam and Chettuva. War indemnity of 85,000 gold coins was paid to the Dutch. War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718 ...
European territories under the rule of the Philip II of Spain around 1580 (the Spanish Netherlands in light green) on a map showing modern-day state borders.. The shifting balance of power in the late Middle Ages meant that besides the local nobility, many of the Dutch administrators by now were not traditional aristocrats; they were from non-noble families that had risen in status over ...