I grew up in Leiden in the 80’s, as a citizen of Leiden, you can still get free Herring and white bread on the third of october. Years later, after having moved to the Hague, I worked as a theatertechnician in Leiden in the oldest theater in the Netherlands, the Leidse Schouwburg. When it was 300 years old, we did a production of the first play ever played there in 1704, wich is about the liberation of the city.❤
Maurits invented a new war strategy that's still used today. He adapted Roman tactics with new weapons and invented the fireline (with muskets). And he changed the army from mostly hired help to pro soldiers.
Some background on the Watergeuzen (Sea Beggars) and how they took Den Briel. They were basically misplaced Protestant nobles. Some fled, but some became bandits. And later at sea. But of course they did need a save harbour. Which England was willing to provide, if they only targeted Spanish ships and towns. But it turned out that the Sea Beggars were acting a little too violent and pirate like. So they were also banned from English harbours. With no other options they had to take Den Briel. The word 'Geus' is still used in the Dutch language as 'Geuzennaam'. The word Geus basically means, bandit/beggar/pirate, not very good stuff. But Geuzennaam is an insult which became a compliment. Becausse we liked the Watergeuzen.
There is so much information about this period: imagine the archives of William of Orange and Filips the second alone. People in those days wrote millions of letters. They are often kept in the archives of the nobility and the royals. They almost know from minute to minute where William and Filips were, what they were doing, what they ate etc.. Even today it is impossible to study all these archives. Only a few have been digitalised. So you need to travel around in Europe and even outside Europe to seek information. Even today people study those archives.
i would suggest to see this Patriotic War song from that time of the 80 years war (it has English translations). This song has another historic part to play for the Dutch people at the beginning of World War 2. After the fall of the Netherlands to the Germans, the government and the Queen escaped to the UK, where they formed "Radio Orange/Oranje", which was a radio station which had contact with the Dutch Resistance. In the first broadcast, this song was played, followed by a speech from the Queen. th-cam.com/video/Xl5yRIfNuWQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5-k6Ny-x4hSisogN
Come visit soon! There is so much interesting historical stuff to see. I’m a bit of a history buff myself, and would be glad to show you around the Hague.❤
There’s a lady narrator who absolutely smashes her storytelling about this period here on TH-cam. Well worth looking up! The channel’s name is Defragged History.
Every country has a national archive. The Dutch national archive is in The Hague (just 100m south of the station Den Haag Central Station in an ugly building). You can go there and request those old books and documents to see. Maybe they say come back later, but I am petty sure you will be able to see them free of charge. If you can do without the feel and smell, you can also see them in high resolution on the internet site of the Dutch national archive.
G'day. About April 1 1572 thats were the April fools joke is coming from. We say in Dutch op 1 April verloor prins Alpha zijn bril. it reims in Dutch in english it means on April 1 prinz Alpha lost his glasses. Have a nice day. 😎
The city of Haarlem surrendered and had to pay a sum of 250,000 Dutch Guilders, probably a few million USD today. 2000 Dutch soldiers were executed by the Spanish. There was only one executioner and after he became exhausted, the remainder were drowned in the Spaarne river.
If you real want do a deep dive on the eighty years war than can i suggest the dutch tv series de 80 jarige oorlog (the 80 years war). You can find this serie of 7 parts (45minutes each) subtitled in english on the youtube channel of Paul H.
I grew up in Leiden in the 80’s, as a citizen of Leiden, you can still get free Herring and white bread on the third of october. Years later, after having moved to the Hague, I worked as a theatertechnician in Leiden in the oldest theater in the Netherlands, the Leidse Schouwburg. When it was 300 years old, we did a production of the first play ever played there in 1704, wich is about the liberation of the city.❤
Maurits invented a new war strategy that's still used today. He adapted Roman tactics with new weapons and invented the fireline (with muskets). And he changed the army from mostly hired help to pro soldiers.
Some background on the Watergeuzen (Sea Beggars) and how they took Den Briel. They were basically misplaced Protestant nobles. Some fled, but some became bandits. And later at sea. But of course they did need a save harbour. Which England was willing to provide, if they only targeted Spanish ships and towns. But it turned out that the Sea Beggars were acting a little too violent and pirate like. So they were also banned from English harbours. With no other options they had to take Den Briel.
The word 'Geus' is still used in the Dutch language as 'Geuzennaam'. The word Geus basically means, bandit/beggar/pirate, not very good stuff. But Geuzennaam is an insult which became a compliment. Becausse we liked the Watergeuzen.
There is so much information about this period: imagine the archives of William of Orange and Filips the second alone. People in those days wrote millions of letters. They are often kept in the archives of the nobility and the royals. They almost know from minute to minute where William and Filips were, what they were doing, what they ate etc.. Even today it is impossible to study all these archives. Only a few have been digitalised. So you need to travel around in Europe and even outside Europe to seek information. Even today people study those archives.
i would suggest to see this Patriotic War song from that time of the 80 years war (it has English translations). This song has another historic part to play for the Dutch people at the beginning of World War 2. After the fall of the Netherlands to the Germans, the government and the Queen escaped to the UK, where they formed "Radio Orange/Oranje", which was a radio station which had contact with the Dutch Resistance. In the first broadcast, this song was played, followed by a speech from the Queen.
th-cam.com/video/Xl5yRIfNuWQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5-k6Ny-x4hSisogN
Come visit soon! There is so much interesting historical stuff to see. I’m a bit of a history buff myself, and would be glad to show you around the Hague.❤
There’s a lady narrator who absolutely smashes her storytelling about this period here on TH-cam. Well worth looking up! The channel’s name is Defragged History.
Every country has a national archive. The Dutch national archive is in The Hague (just 100m south of the station Den Haag Central Station in an ugly building). You can go there and request those old books and documents to see. Maybe they say come back later, but I am petty sure you will be able to see them free of charge. If you can do without the feel and smell, you can also see them in high resolution on the internet site of the Dutch national archive.
During this war the Dutch invented the professional army no more volontaires
But you do know that the Dutchman Willem Janszoon set foot on Australia a 164 years before Captain Cook! 😉😁✌🏼
I think the first text in Dutch is from about the year 1100.
G'day. About April 1 1572 thats were the April fools joke is coming from. We say in Dutch op 1 April verloor prins Alpha zijn bril. it reims in Dutch in english it means on April 1 prinz Alpha lost his glasses. Have a nice day. 😎
The city of Haarlem surrendered and had to pay a sum of 250,000 Dutch Guilders, probably a few million USD today.
2000 Dutch soldiers were executed by the Spanish.
There was only one executioner and after he became exhausted, the remainder were drowned in the Spaarne river.
There is a better documentary, you can't cram 80 years in 20 minutes. The Paul H version, NTR public broadcast, gets it right.
top video again it was very interesting again
If you real want do a deep dive on the eighty years war than can i suggest the dutch tv series de 80 jarige oorlog (the 80 years war). You can find this serie of 7 parts (45minutes each) subtitled in english on the youtube channel of Paul H.
Nice video, but too bad you didn’t choose the documentaries of Paul H or Defragged History. Much nicer to watch!
's-Hertogenbosch ( Den Bosch ) in Brabant is my city
Leiden is my city 😁