Bouches-de-la-Meuse (French: [buʃ.də.la.møz], "Mouths of the Meuse"; Walloon: Bokes do Moûze, Dutch: Monden van de Maas) was a department of the First...
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The Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen, on 1 April 1572 marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years'...
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The Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta is a river delta in the Netherlands formed by the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) and the Scheldt rivers...
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integrated into the French Empire, and Maasland was renamed Bouches-de-la-Meuse. After the defeat of the French in 1813, this organisation remained unchanged...
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she gave to Brielle in 1343. She was also involved in creating new polders. She successfully defended the economic interests of Brielle against those...
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northern Netherlands through Friesland, Jean de Villers entered the southern provinces between the Rhine and the Meuse and the Huguenots would invade Artois...
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"Monseigneur de Graeff", a privateer and captain of the Sea Beggars during the Capture of Brielle. In recent research, Lenaert Jansz de Graeff is described...
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The Meuse campaign was a major operation during the Dutch Revolt lead by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange in which he took the cities of Venlo, Roermond...
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Margaret's fleet sailed to the mouth of the Meuse. On 4 July 1351 the fleets engaged each other not far from Brielle, west of Zwartewaal. The result was a Cod...
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Delta Works (category Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta)
action was taken. In 1950 two small estuary mouths, the Brielse Gat near Brielle and the Botlek near Vlaardingen were dammed. After the North Sea flood...
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the Beeldenstorm in August 1566 until early 1572 (before the Capture of Brielle on 1 April 1572) contained the first events of a series that would later...
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for the sending of an army of 6,000 men, while receiving Flushing and Brielle as collateral for the costs to be incurred. The Duke of Leicester would...
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William the Silent (redirect from Willem de Zwijger)
a group known as the Watergeuzen ("Sea Beggars") captured the city of Brielle, which had been left unattended by the Spanish garrison. Contrary to their...
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Meanwhile, Aurore left Rotterdam on 29 June and sailed on the Meuse river to Brielle. At Brielle, Le Roy stated that after testing, the second prototype seemed...
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time. On 1 January 2023, the municipality of Hellevoetsluis merged with Brielle and Westvoorne into the new municipality of Voorne aan Zee. The area has...
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The naval Battle of Puerto de Cavite (Spanish: La Batalla del Puerto de Cavite; Filipino: Labanan sa Puerto ng Cavite) took place on 10 June 1647 during...
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particular in the old County of Flanders. Mosan Gothic (Meuse Gothic) refers to the river Maas (or Meuse, borrowed from French), mainly in the south-eastern...
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resurgence in 1572 when the Spanish were driven out of Brielle by the Dutch rebels. The capture of Brielle resulted in seven predominantly Protestant Dutch...
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The period between the Capture of Brielle (1 April 1572) and the Pacification of Ghent (8 November 1576) was an early stage of the Eighty Years' War (c...
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At the time, the Nieuwe Maas still flowed to sea passing just north of Brielle. In 1949 the stretch from Vlaardingen to the sea, known as Brielse Maas...
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crossed the Meuse River and made contact with the rear of the withdrawing rebel army. With the bulk of the Spanish army still south of the Meuse, John sent...
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Dahlen Heiligerlee Jemmingen Jodoigne Le Quesnoy 1572–1576 Western Europe Brielle Mons 1st Mechelen Goes Naarden Middelburg Haarlem IJsselmeer Alkmaar 1st...
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The Battles of La Naval de Manila or Battle of Manila Bay (Spanish: Batallas de las marinas de Manila) were a series of five naval battles fought in the...
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(1629), the fortified cities of Venlo, Roermond and Maastricht along the Meuse (1632), and Sas van Gent (1644) and Hulst (1645) in Zeelandic Flanders....
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Maarten Tromp (category People from Brielle)
and/or his son Cornelis, also a Dutch admiral of some renown. Born in Brielle in the Netherlands, Tromp was the oldest son of Harpert Maertensz, a naval...
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The 2016–17 Coupe de France First preliminary rounds comprised the first rounds of the 2016–17 Coupe de France preliminary rounds. The competition was...
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them. Louis crossed the Meuse with only 5,500 infantry and 2,600 cavalry. Before Louis could join forces with William, Luis de Requesens temporarily lifted...
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the Beeldenstorm in August 1566 until early 1572 (before the Capture of Brielle on 1 April 1572) contained the first events of a series that would later...
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in 1566 that affected other cities in the Netherlands. When the city of Brielle was conquered by the Geuzen revolutionary army on 1 April, Haarlem did...
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was founded in 1574 during the Dutch Revolt, when (after the Capture of Brielle) William I of Orange's supporters decided to pool their naval resources...
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