The Siege of Ostend - Brossura

Belleroche, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1230468536 ISBN 13: 9781230468532

Casa editrice: TheClassics.us, 2013

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... of ££tcnb; or Cijc $cto Crop. 1601-1604. By EDWARD BELLEKOCHE, Member Of Council. 'Luctor et Emerge.' With the capture and complete destruction of this stronghold by the Spaniards was sounded the knell of the Eeformation in the southern states of the Netherlands, just as the fall of La Eochelle, a few years later (1628), marked the annihilation of the Huguenots as a great military party in France.2 Both were maritime cities and relied for their defence on the assistance of friendly fleets; but, whilst that of the Dutch never failed Ostend, the English fleets sent to La Eochelle accomplished little or nothing. Both were besieged by a cardinal, but while Richelieu was more of a politician than a religious devotee, Archduke Albert would not permit any but Catholics to settle in Ostend after its recapture. It was finally taken by the Marquis Ambrogio Spinola, and this so thoroughly established his military reputation that Eichelieu begged him to inspect his approaches before La Eochelle. The latter was defended, as was Leyden in 1574, by its brave mayor and its citizens only. Within its walls were no persons of quality, if we except the aged mother of the Duke of Eohan; but Ostend was ever full of English knights, French gentilshommes and Dutch jonkheers, and was considered by the young noblemen of the period a capital school for war. Physicians, and surgeons especially, also found it a good school. That famous siege has been so admirably described by J Motto of the Province of Zealand. 2 The rising of the CamisardE in 1702 was localised in one district. Motley in his 'United Netherlands,' and more recently and partially by Mr. Clements E. Markham in 'The Fighting Veres,' that it may seem presumptuous to ask the English public to...

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• Editore: TheClassics.us
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230468536
• ISBN 13: 9781230468532
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 90