This book offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutch Republic.
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Eighty Years War or Revolt?
- Aim and structure of the study
- PART I: The Revolt in the Low Countries 1566 –1588
- Chapter One: The integration of the Low Countries
- Chapter Two: The Dutch Revolt
- The iconoclastic fury (1566)
- The arrival of Alva and the campaign of 1568
- The Sea Beggars (1568–1572)
- The beginning of armed conflict in Holland and Zeeland (1572)
- The Revolt in Holland and Zeeland (1572–1576)
- The Pacification of Ghent: all the provinces in revolt (1576–1578)
- The Unions of Utrecht and Arras (1579)
- War on two fronts (1579–1585)
- Leicester as governor-general (1585–1588)
- Conclusion
- Chapter Three: The insurgents’ army and navy
- The army
- Siege warfare
- Battles
- The infantry: weapons and tactics
- The cavalry: weapons and tactics
- Field and siege artillery
- The navy
- Maritime strategy and operational concepts
- Artillery and tactics
- Disabling enemy fleets
- Protecting the merchant and fishing fleet
- Attacks on enemy shipping
- Support for land operations
- Conclusion
- Chapter Four: The organisation and financing of the insurgents’ army and navy
- The army
- Free soldiers
- The landsknechts (until about 1576)
- Abolition of the landsknecht system in Holland (1572–1576)
- Discharging the royal army in the Low Countries (1576–1578)
- The Union army (1579–1587)
- The size of the army and financing the war effort on land
- The navy
- Public and private, lawful and unlawful
- The admiralty in the sixteenth century
- The insurgents and the admiralties
- Shore organisation, ships and equipment
- The ships’ companies: from admiral to seaman
- The financing of the navy
- Conclusion
- PART II: The regular war for the Low Countries 1588 –1648
- Chapter Five: The Republic at war
- The Republic on the counterattack (1588–1599)
- The Republic explores its boundaries (1599–1604)
- The road to the Truce (1604–1609)
- War suspended for twelve years (1609–1621)
- The Republic at bay (1621–1628)
- On the counterattack again (1629–1633)
- The attack on the southern Netherlands (1634–1640)
- The end game (1641–1646)
- The Peace of Münster (1646–1648)
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six: Land and sea warfare
- The army
- The tactical military revolution
- The logistical organisation of campaigns
- Sieges
- The navy
- Maritime operations, ships and artillery
- A maritime revolution? From Gibraltar to the Downs
- Convoys, blockades and patrols
- Privateering
- Support for land operations
- Conclusion
- Chapter Seven: The organisation and financing of the Republic’s army and navy
- The army
- The appointment of officers
- Mustering
- Running a company
- The solliciteurs-militair
- The size of the army and how it was financed
- The navy
- The organisation of the admiralties
- The admiralties and the generality
- Financing the navy
- The naval high command
- Flag and other officers
- Recruiting ships’ crews
- Management on board warships
- Conclusion
- Chapter Eight: The nature of the conflict (1568–1648 )
- War and the law
- Sovereign, rebellion and terror
- Revolt, terror and the people
- War, the military and the population
- Revolt, war, prisoners-of-war
- Conclusion
- Concluding observations
- Chronology, nomenclature and units of measurement
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Bibliography
- Archive sources
- Manuscripts
- Printed sources
- Tables
- About the authors
- Illustration credits
- Index
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