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  2. Battle of Heiligerlee (1568) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Heiligerlee (Heiligerlee, Groningen, 23 May 1568) [4] was fought between Dutch rebels and the Spanish army of Friesland. It was the first Dutch victory during the Eighty Years' War . The Groningen province of the Spanish Netherlands was invaded by an army consisting of 3,900 infantry, led by Louis of Nassau , and 200 cavalry, led ...

  3. Eighty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The Eighty Years' War [i] or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) [j] was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands [k] between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.

  4. Siege of Middelburg (1572–1574) - Wikipedia

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    Stadtholder William of Orange. Philip II of Spain had inherited the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands upon his accession, but his policies soon led to local discontent. By 1568, William I of Orange, stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, and Utrecht, and other noblemen were dissatisfied with Spanish rule in the Netherlands. [4]

  5. Spanish Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) [4] was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.

  6. Heiligerlee - Wikipedia

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    The 1568 Battle of Heiligerlee was the first battle that the Dutch rebels won against the Spanish. The army led by Louis and Adolf of Nassau defeated the Spanish, but politically it was no success. Adolf even died during the fight. It was the first battle of importance fought in the Eighty Years' War, and therefore often marked as its beginning ...

  7. Origins of the Eighty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    European territories under the rule of the Philip II of Spain around 1580 (the Spanish Netherlands in light green) on a map showing modern-day state borders.. The shifting balance of power in the late Middle Ages meant that besides the local nobility, many of the Dutch administrators by now were not traditional aristocrats; they were from non-noble families that had risen in status over ...

  8. Mechelen, Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The St John the Baptist Church is a single-aisled church. It burnt down in 1568, and was enlarged between 1810 and 1811 and 1863 to 1867. In 1935, it was redesigned with a larger tower by Joseph Cuypers. [4] Mechelen was home to 740 people in 1840. [5] Mechelen used to be the capital of the municipality of Wittem.

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