Article: Fernando Alvarez de Toledo (1507The Renaissance;      575 words ... ... s service, Philip sent Alba to the Netherlands in 1567, with his mission being to ... organized a large fleet, known as the Sea Beggars, to oppose the Spanish at sea, where ... environment favored the rebels. The Sea Beggars harassed Spanish coastal forts and shipping ...

Article: Tales of herring do
The Scotsman;  February 5, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... all to herring. The Golden Age of the Netherlands -those canal mansions, glorious paintings ... the Dutch in the Faroe Islands. The Sea Beggars, English privateers with Huguenot help ... year struggle to hang on to all the Netherlands, and the war of the herring started ...

Article: The Dutch Revolt: Graham Darby explains how and why the creation ...
History Review;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Or perhaps in 1572 with the capture of Brill by the `Sea Beggars'? Or was there no real revolt until 1579 with the Union ... Alexander Farnese, later Duke of Parma, all but reconquered the Netherlands from the rebels. Although the rebels' attempts to transfer ...

Article: Travel: Lusty boatmen and walled-up women John Gimlette discovers ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... by the town's sober aspect as its role as capital of the Netherlands. In desperation, the Mechelians built 150 breweries. I ... De Wit "factory". While Spanish mercenaries and English sea-beggars lopped Flanders to pieces, weavers, knotting at the rate ...

Article: Illuster Onderwijs: Het Amsterdamse Athenaeum in de Gouden Eeuw, ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 1477-1806 (Oxford, 1995, 170), "was triggered by the Sea-Beggars" on 1 April 1572, when they seized the small town of Brill ... 1575 it had become clear to Alva, Governor-General of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, that the Spanish hold on the North ...

Article: Indonesia: Chapter 1B. The Coming of the Dutch
Countries of the World;      700+ words ... ... principal center for commerce and banking. The ambitions of the Sea Beggars, as the Dutch were known, rapidly took on global proportions ... one-eighth the financing of the VOC, and Britain and the Netherlands were technically allies in the struggle against the Iberian ...

Article: The Netherlands
Countries and Their Cultures;      700+ words ...The Netherlands Culture Name Dutch Alternative Names Netherlands culture, Hollandic culture. The Dutch use Nederlandse ... Dutch" referred originally to both Germany and the Netherlands but came to be restricted to the people and language ...