The Siege of Leyden
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Siege of Leyden: Condensed From Motley´s "the Rise of the Dutch Republic" The story of the siege of Leyden belongs not to the Dutch only, but to the worlds history of freedom. No other city on the continent of Europe is so closely connected with American history. After the siege of Leyden had been raised, the Dutch patriots were so encouraged that they were soon able to form that union of seven states which gave our fathers so inspiring a precedent. It was no less a personage than Benjamin Franklin that wrote, "In love of liberty and bravery in the defence of it, she (Holland) has been our great example." The long war which the Netherlands waged with Spain for freedom and independence lasted eighty years, from 1572 to 1648. It was a struggle of the new forces which were to make modern civilization and a new world, against the old repression of the middle ages. Then brave little Holland led the van. A small country, consisting chiefly of swamp and sand, with only here and there patches of hard land, making in all not over six thousand square miles, on which lived only about eight hundred thousand people, was pitted against mighty Spain, then the richest and strongest country in the world, with the finest army in Europe to do King Philips bidding, and with the gold and silver mines of America to keep his treasury full. It seemed like a shepherd boy with a sling and stones, going out to fight Goliath. At first the Dutch had no regular army raised on their own soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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