Both sides in the Dutch Revolt now …
Years: 1607 - 1607
Both sides in the Dutch Revolt now embark on an intensification of the fortress-building spree that had begun in the mid-1590s, enveloping the Republic in a double belt of fortresses on its outer borders (an outer Spanish and an inner Dutch belt).
This belt runs from Emden in the northeast via Bourtange, ...
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Protestantism
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
- Geuzen, or Sea Beggars
- Netherlands, Southern (Spanish)
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
Topics
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Eighty Years War (Netherlands, or Dutch, War of Independence)
