Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere

Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere

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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