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    History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585b

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      History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585b - John Lothrop Motley

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      Title: History of the United Netherlands, 1585

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      HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS

      From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce—1609

      By John Lothrop Motley

      MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Volume 39

      History of The United Netherlands, 1585

      CHAPTER V., Part 1.

           Position and Character of Farnese—Preparations for Antwerp Siege—

           Its Characteristics—Foresight of William the Silent—Sainte

           Aldegonde, the Burgomaster—Anarchy in Antwerp—Character of Sainte

           Aldegonde—Admiral Treslong—Justinus de Nassau—Hohenlo—Opposition

           to the Plan of Orange—Liefkenshoek—Head—Quarters of Parma at

           Kalloo—Difficulty of supplying the City—Results of not piercing

           the Dykes—Preliminaries of the Siege—Successes of the Spaniards—

           Energy of Farnese with Sword and Pen—His Correspondence with the

           Antwerpers—Progress of the Bridge—Impoverished Condition of Parma

           —Patriots attempt Bois-le-Duc—Their Misconduct—Failure of the

           Enterprise—The Scheldt Bridge completed—Description of the

           Structure

      The negotiations between France and the Netherlands have been massed, in order to present a connected and distinct view of the relative attitude of the different countries of Europe. The conferences and diplomatic protocolling had resulted in nothing positive; but it is very necessary for the reader to understand the negative effects of all this dissimulation and palace-politics upon the destiny of the new commonwealth, and upon Christendom at large. The League had now achieved a great triumph; the King of France had virtually abdicated, and it was now requisite for the King of Navarre, the Netherlands, and Queen Elizabeth, to draw more closely together than before, if the last hope of forming a counter-league were not to be abandoned. The next step in political combination was therefore a solemn embassy of the States- General to England. Before detailing those negotiations, however, it is proper to direct attention to the external public events which had been unrolling themselves in the Provinces, contemporaneously with the secret history which has been detailed in the preceding chapters.

      By presenting in their natural groupings various distinct occurrences, rather than by detailing them in strict chronological order, a clearer view of the whole picture will be furnished than could be done by intermingling personages, transactions, and scenery, according to the arbitrary command of Time alone.

      The Netherlands, by the death of Orange, had been left without a head. On the other hand, the Spanish party had never been so fortunate in their chief at any period since the destiny of the two nations had been blended with each other. Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, was a general and a politician, whose character had been steadily ripening since he came into the command of the country. He was now thirty-seven years of age—with the experience of a sexagenarian. No longer the impetuous, arbitrary, hot-headed youth, whose intelligence and courage hardly atoned for his insolent manner and stormy career, he had become pensive, modest, almost gentle. His genius was rapid in conception, patient in combination, fertile in expedients, adamantine in the endurance or suffering; for never did a heroic general and a noble army of veterans manifest more military virtue in the support of an infamous cause than did Parma and his handful of Italians and Spaniards. That which they considered to be their duty they performed. The work before them they did with all their might.

      Alexander had vanquished the rebellion in the Celtic provinces, by the masterly diplomacy and liberal bribery which have been related in a former work. Artois, Hainault, Douay, Orchies, with the rich cities of Lille, Tournay, Valenciennes, Arras, and other important places, were now the property of Philip. These unhappy and misguided lands, however, were already reaping the reward of their treason. Beggared, trampled upon, plundered, despised, they were at once the prey of the Spaniards, and the cause that their sister-states, which still held out, were placed in more desperate condition than ever. They were also, even in their abject plight, made still more forlorn by the forays of Balagny, who continued in command of Cambray. Catharine de' Medici claimed that city as her property, by will of the Duke of Anjou. A strange title—founded upon the treason and cowardice of her favourite son—but one which, for a time, was made good by the possession maintained by Balagny. That usurper meantime, with a shrewd eye to his own interests, pronounced the truce of Cambray, which was soon afterwards arranged, from year to year, by permission of Philip, as a most excellent milch-cow; and he continued to fill his pails at the expense of the reconciled provinces, till they were thoroughly exhausted.

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