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  2. List of battles of the Eighty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The rebels, who initiated their first actions of physical force during the Beeldenstorm (August–October 1566, initially mostly directed at Catholic Church property rather than governmental forces) started out as disparate riotous mobs of poorly armed and poorly trained but well-organised Calvinists, originally predominantly from industrial centres in western Flanders. [3]

  3. Eighty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The years 1579–1588 constituted a phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the United Provinces in revolt after most of them concluded the Union of Utrecht on 23 January 1579, and proceeded to carve the independent Dutch Republic out of the Habsburg Netherlands.

  4. Historiography of the Eighty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The historiography of the Eighty Years' War examines how the Eighty Years' War has been viewed or interpreted throughout the centuries.Some of the main issues of contention between scholars include the name of the war (most notably "Eighty Years' War" versus "Dutch Revolt" [1]), the periodisation of the war (particularly when it started, which events to include or exclude, and whether the ...

  5. Battle of Nieuwpoort - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Nieuwpoort (also known as the Battle of the Dunes) was fought on 2 July 1600 during the Eighty Years War and the Anglo-Spanish war in the dunes near Nieuwpoort. [6] An Anglo-Dutch army met a Spanish force head-on which, although their left flank nearly broke, were able to assail them with both infantry and cavalry.

  6. Peace of Westphalia - Wikipedia

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    Europe had been battered by both the Thirty Years' War and the overlapping Eighty Years' War (begun c. 1568), exacting a heavy toll in money and lives. The Eighty Years' War was a prolonged struggle for the independence of the Protestant-majority Dutch Republic (the modern Netherlands), supported by Protestant-majority England, against Catholic-dominated Spain and Portugal.

  7. 80 years ago, on the beaches of Normandy, WWII shifted ... - AOL

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    The Allied invasion of Normandy was a major turning point in World War II. This is how it happened. 80 years ago, on the beaches of Normandy, WWII shifted course: Here's how D-Day unfolded

  8. Battle of Empel - Wikipedia

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    The Miracle of Empel (Milagro de Empel in Spanish) was an unexpected Spanish victory on December 8, 1585, near Empel, in the Netherlands, as part of the Eighty Years' War, in which a surrounded Spanish force managed to escape an attack by Dutch army and destroyed some of the immobilized Dutch ships when the waters around their island suddenly froze.

  9. 80 years later, Battle of the Bulge heroes remind us why we ...

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    The 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge reminds us that appeasing tyrants never works. The U.S. must continue to stand strong against tyrants like Vladimir Putin to keep America safe.