Dutch States Army
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The Dutch States Army was the army of the Dutch Republic. It was usually called this, because it was formally the army of the States-General of the Netherlands, the sovereign power of that federal rep
1778 painting of the States Army's Dutch Guards exercising in the Hague
A military parade at the Binnenhof in the 1760s
Prince Maurice of Orange dismissing mercenaries in Neude Square in Utrecht on 31 July 1618.
Maurice of Nassau
Eighty Years' War
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The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Reformation, c
Dutch States Army
…the France of Louis XIV, despite the fact that these powers possessed far larger military resources than the Republic. It played a major role in the Eighty Years' War (opposite the Spanish Army of Flanders) and in the wars of the Grand Alliance with France after 1672. Despite the fact that the standard work by Ten…
The Battle of Gibraltar, 1607
The Beeldenstorm or Iconoclastic Fury was a more or less organised destruction of Catholic sacred objects which swept through the Habsburg Netherlands' churches in 1566. 1630 painting by Dirck van Delen
Capture of Brielle in 1572 by Anthonie Waldorp (1862)
Stadtholder Maurice of Nassau during the 1600 Battle of Nieuwpoort, a tactical Dutch victory for little gain