#aardenburg

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Tuimelsteenstraat, Aardenburg, Zeeland.

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Aardenburg, Netherlands (by Nik)

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Barend Wijnveld  (1820–1902) - Anno 1672. The heroic defense of Aardenburg - 1897

Margaretha Sandra (1629 in Middelburg – 1674 in Aardenburg, Zeeland), was a Dutch heroine, known for participation in the defence of Aardenburg during the siege of the French in 1672. The small fortress town had few soldiers so the women dressed themselves as soldiers and manned the city walls to appear to be soldiers to the enemy. They managed to hold the city until reinforcements arrived without losses. Margaretha Sandra made ammunition during the battle and has been pointed out as a representative for all the women taking part in the defence.

In Dutch history, the year 1672 was known as the rampjaar, the "disaster year." That year, following the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch Republic was simultaneously attacked by England, France, and the prince-bishops Bernhard von Galen, bishop of Münster, and Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, archbishop of Cologne. The invading armies quickly defeated most of the Dutch States Army and conquered part of the Republic. A famous Dutch saying coined that year describes the Dutch people redeloos, its government radeloos, and the country reddeloos: irrational, desperate, and beyond rescue, respectively. Fed up with reduced military spending, the cities of the remaining coastal provinces of Holland, Zealand and Frisia underwent a political transition: the city governments were taken over by Orangists, opposed to the republican regime of the Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt, soon ending the First Stadtholderless Period. Despite the initial shock and successful invasion of the eastern Dutch Republic, the English, French and German forces were eventually driven back. The English were defeated by the navy under Michiel de Ruyter in 1674, resulting in the Treaty of Westminster and eventually leading to the Glorious Revolution. Without English pressure and with the French being held in the south, Cologne and Münster also made peace in 1674. The French were eventually repelled with the help of the Spanish forces in the Spanish Netherlands, though some Spanish cities were ceded to France. The conflict eventually ended with the Treaties of Nijmegen in 1678-9.

Barend Wijnveld (13 August 1820 – 18 February 1902), was a Dutch painter.

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Flag of Aardenburg

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De eerste graven van Vlaanderen

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De eerste graven van Vlaanderen

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Verzet in Vlaanderen

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Verzet in Vlaanderen

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Die vervloekte Alva

‘Het Nederland was in 1567 vol verwarring, vol droefheid en ellende. Zelfs de katholieken zagen met pijn in het hart hoe zo veel mensen werden omgebracht en weenden om de ballingschap van hun vrienden van wie hun kinderen en vrouwen in uiterste armoede moesten leven.’ De Spanjaarden roven wat ze kunnen. Grote sommen geld worden op zee geschaveeld van de koningin van Engeland. Op de Rijn raakt een…

Die vervloekte Alva

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Woede in de Westhoek

De welvaart in Vlaanderen hangt in grote mate af van de lakennijverheid en die is in grote mate afhankelijk van de goede zakelijke relaties met de Engelse markt. De levensbelangrijke onderhandelingen tussen de Vlaamse steden (onder leiding van Bruggeling Willem de Deken) en de Engelse koning Edward II om de relaties tussen beiden in een duurzame vrede om te zetten, lopen echter niet zoals…

Woede in de Westhoek