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By Sir Clements R
. Markham

Published 1888
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"The Fighting Veres.": Lives of Sir Francis Vere, General of the Queen's Forces in the Low ...
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Zutphen - Page 29
His son, Don Fadrique de Toledo, committed shocking massacres at Zutphen and Naarden, occupied Amsterdam, and began the siege of Haarlem in December, ...
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Ostend - Page 282
town, between Ostend and Dunkirk, with a wet ditch supplied by a canal from Bruges and by the river Yser. which here falls into the tidal estuary ...
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Turnhout - Page 369
During the siege Count Louis of Nassau died of fever, and Colonel Van der Aa, who had so gallantly seconded Sir Francis Vere at the battle of Turnhout ...
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Deventer - Page 170
EVER since Sir Francis Vere had taken command of the field force he had been eager to recover Deventer and the Zutphen Sconces, and thus wipe the ...
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Maastricht - Page 450
The siege of Maastricht was the last important military operation in which Lord Vere was engaged. He still continued to give the aid of his knowledge ...
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Arnhem - Page 35
Between the parallels of Cleves and Arnhem, while the Yssel branch flows onward in a northerly course, two other branches of the Rhine turn westward ...
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Coevorden - Page 37
Zee the Frisians were comparatively clear of the strife, though further east the war was still to rage round Groningen, Steenwyck, and Coevorden. ...
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Dunkirk - Page 170
He wanted to make an attack on Dunkirk in the dead of winter, a plan which was disliked by the Lords of the English Council. ...
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Doesburg - Page 87
Zutphen and Doesburg on the Yssel were already in his hands. Neuss was taken by storm, and Parma commenced the siege of Rheinberg, an important ...
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Puerto Real - Page 223
passes down its centre to Puerto Real, and there is another port, called Santa Maria, on the north side of the bay, which can only be approached by ...
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Brussels - Page 67
His governors at Brussels sent embassies to remonstrate, the States sent envoys to entreat for intervention. The Queen wisely continued to give ...
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Leicester - Page 98
But Leicester undoubtedly displayed zeal and anxiety to perform to the best of his ability the excessively difficult service on which he was employed. ...
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Amsterdam - Page 29
Nearly all the important cities of Holland and Zeeland, except Amsterdam, raised the standard of the Prince of Orange; and the government was formally ...
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Oxford - Page 43
A son of Thomas Williams of Penrose, in Monmouthshire, by Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Vaughan, Roger had received an education at Oxford, ...
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Haarlem - Page 29
His son, Don Fadrique de Toledo, committed shocking massacres at Zutphen and Naarden, occupied Amsterdam, and began the siege of Haarlem in December, ...
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Venlo - Page 87
Duke of Parma then captured Venlo, and so secured the whole line of the Maas. This success enabled him to turn his attention to the line of the Rhine. ...
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Veere - Page 75
the city of Middelburg (the capital of Zeeland), only a few miles from Flushing; and the other seaport of Veere on the north side, also a thriving ...
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Poitiers - Page 7
He went to Gascony with the Prince of Wales, and was at the battle of Poitiers as Chief of the Archers. He died in the camp of the English army before ...
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Terneuzen - Page 90
The pilgrim who follows in the footsteps of Sir Philip Sidney from Terneuzen to Axel, and thinks of his midnight march by starlight, with sheets of ...
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Naarden - Page 29
His son, Don Fadrique de Toledo, committed shocking massacres at Zutphen and Naarden, occupied Amsterdam, and began the siege of Haarlem in December, ...

Oudenburg - Page 286
Towards evening Maurice received news from Ostend that a large force of the enemy was before the fort of Oudenburg. ...
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Caen - Page 83
In 1562 he joined the French Protestants, and was at the taking of Caen, and then went to Ireland, where he.

Gloucester - Page 461
When the Dukes of York and Gloucester and other discontented nobles confederated against Richard IL and his favorite Robert de Vere, ninth Earl of ...

Hackney - Page 433
LORD and Lady Vere removed from their lodgings in the city to a pleasant house at Clapton, near Hackney, where they lived with their five young ...
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Harwich - Page 79
The Earl of Leicester and his suite rode from Colchester to Manningtree, where boats were ready to take them down the river Stour to Harwich. ...
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Colchester - Page 79
The Earl of Leicester and his suite rode from Colchester to Manningtree, where boats were ready to take them down the river Stour to Harwich. ...
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Duisburg - Page 371
Close to Ruhrort is the ancient town of Duisburg, where the great geographer, Gerard Mercator (or Cremer), dwelt for upwards of forty years, ...
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Plymouth - Page 241
at length got back to Plymouth, and his mast was so effectually fished that it lasted out the rest of the voyage. On July 20 Essex sent a message to ...
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Mayence - Page 399
Spinola crossed the Rhine below Coblentz, feigning a march to Bohemia, but suddenly wheeled, recrossed the river, and entered the city of Mayence on ...

Abingdon - Page 14
In 1311 Earl's Come became a free priory, independent of Abingdon. The conventual building is said to have been of timber, with a brick.
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Gouda - Page 39
and Amersfoort; and beautiful stained glass filled the windows of many churches, and is still preserved at Gouda. The Netherlanders embraced the Cal1 ...
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London - Page 397
of the young nobility pressed forward for the honor of serving under Sir Horace Vere, and volunteers crowded to the standard in the city of London by ...
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Tongeren - Page 441
On the 25th the Spanish army arrived at the village of Tongeren. The troops were encamped in the villages of Neerhaeren and Lanaekar, with the wood of ...

Dover - Page 207
He who coasted the continent found a narrow passage, not so broad as that between Dover and Calais, where the greatest difficulty was that by reason ...
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Madrid - Page 469
Antonio de Herrera wrote a history of the reign of Philip IL, including the portion of the war from 1558 to 1598, which was published at Madrid in ...

Waalwijk - Page 189
On the 28th Count Mansfelt tardily appeared with an army of 7000 foot and 2000 horse, encamping in the villages of Capelle and Waalwijk, about six ...

Amersfoort - Page 39
and Amersfoort; and beautiful stained glass filled the windows of many churches, and is still preserved at Gouda. The Netherlanders embraced the Cal1 ...

Alkmaar - Page 37
inland from Amsterdam, with Zandam on its banks, was formed by the Y; and there were large lakes, now reclaimed, in North Holland as far as Alkmaar. ...
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Barnet - Page 8
At the battle of Barnet the Earl of Oxford carried all before him on the right wing of the Lancastrian army. On returning from the pursuit of the ...

Santa Maria - Page 223
another port, called Santa Maria, on the north side of the bay, which can only be approached by vessels drawing very little water. ...

Prague - Page 407
The news of the battle of Prague reached London on the 24th of November. The agitation was great; the people laid the blame on ...

Bilbao - Page 95
In the foremost rank were Juan de Ugarte from Tordesillas, and Pedro Venero, a Basque from Bilbao. They held their ground until a reinforcement of ...

Ferrara - Page 469
Guido Bentivoglio was born at Ferrara in 1579. He was sent by Pope Paul V. as nuncio to Flanders at the age of 26, and during his residence there he ...

Barking - Page 216
1 Sister Frances was still living at home. She was married to Rob' ert Harcourt, at Barking in Essex, on March zo, 1598.

Darmstadt - Page 403
Next day there was a long march to Darmstadt. As Sir Horace Vere. was now close to the forces of the Union, Count Henry of Nassau took his leave, ...

Salisbury - Page 347
thus announces it to Salisbury: “An annual liberality the States have laid for me, and desired I should 1 Vere to Salisbury, December 2 Sidney Pafters ...
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Rouen - Page 401
But knowing that Spinola would have spies out in all direcknighted before Rouen in 1594. Parliament general. Henry was lie was created Baron Fairfax ...
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Vannes - Page 7
He was in the great sea-fight with Don Luis de la Cerda and the Genoese off Guernsey, and served with the King in Brittany at the sieges of Vannes and ...

Paris - Page 279
They are sent to all parts, but principally to Paris. The men fish, the women cultivate the vegetable gardens. The Protestant church at Philippine ...
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Cambridge - Page 24
The young Earl's youth was distinguished by his wit and adroitness in his exercises, and he was sent to Cambridge, where Sir Thomas Smith was his ...
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Milan - Page 277
bella, then set out for their government, travelling by Milan, over the Alps to Basle, and thence by Besançon and Luxemburg. ...
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Besançon - Page 277
bella, then set out for their government, travelling by Milan, over the Alps to Basle, and thence by Besançon and Luxemburg. ...

Sutton - Page 301
Vere rode up from his victorious charge on the beach, bringing further reinforcements, including the companies of Captains Lowell, Sutton, and Morgan. ...

Medemblik - Page 37
while the ports on the Zuyder Zee, especially Amsterdam, Hoorn, Enkhuysen, and Medemblik, were beginning to develop an increasing shipping business. ...

Kensington - Page 5
1 The first Alberic de Vere He founded Colne Priory, where held Kensington, nine lordships he was buried, with his younger in Suffolk, ...

Rimini - Page 465
It is dedicated to Sigismond Malatesta, of Rimini, the inventor of bombs. Valturius is the oldest of the modem writers on war. (Basle, 1472. ...

Jerusalem - Page 6
The third Alberic de Vere was in the Holy Land with Robert of Normandy, at Jerusalem and the siege of Antioch, and retook a banner of St. ...

Nottingham - Page 341
On this Vere observed: “Her 1 The Queen's grief had been and life.long friend the Countess caused by the death of her cousin of Nottingham. ...

Luxemburg - Page 277
bella, then set out for their government, travelling by Milan, over the Alps to Basle, and thence by Besançon and Luxemburg. ...

Rome - Page 6
Plantagenets in his \Velsh and Scottish wars; and his brother Hugh, Lord Vere, was employed by Edward I. on missions of importance to France and Rome. ...

Nuremberg - Page 244
Martin Behaim, of Nuremberg, the learned cosmogra. pher, lived and was married at the town of Horta. the capital of Fayal. ...

Cologne - Page 469
to Flanders at the age of 26, and during his residence there he wrote “Della Guerra di Fiandra,” in three parts, first published at Cologne in 1632. ...

Lisbon - Page 224
Tonias,” — two great Lisbon galleons, two argc which had great ordnance for ballast, and three frigates. Nearer the town there were seventeen leys, ...

Belfast - Page 479
teens in the Netheriatids, 48; at Rymenatet, Chichester, Sir Arthur, afterwards Lord Chi50. chester of Belfast, services transferred to ...

Portsmouth - Page 479
347; let- 227; his regiment landed, aa8; sent toguaz'd ter ii,. frr'in \‘ere, respecting his Portsmouth th' approach to Cadiz from the land, 229. ...

Schiedam - Page 499
Schiedam, 36. Schottenburgh, a fort in the defences of Oat-end, 3ia; Sir F. Vet-c took his stand at, 325; repulse of the enemy, 327. ...

Manchester - Page 485
Grant, Christopher, of Manchester, father of burg, slainu, c-S9. the wife of John Dent and Sir Julius Czsar, Giunstu_-iario, Pompeo, notice of hts ...

Texel - Page 283
e Texel to Dunkirk the flat and fertile plains ted from the sea by the dunes, a line of ¿ sand and varying height, thrown together ...

Flushing - Page 43
These English sympathizers were very popular in Flushing. They asked no more than bare victuals and lodging, and they were eager to do their best in ...
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Willemstad - Page 261
Sir Francis Vere accompanied Sir Robert Sidney to Willemstad, whence the governor of Flushing intended to proceed by water to his charge. ...
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Fairfax - Page 203
Fairfax. The third. yard, was a poet of d the translator of Lfter-years the friend. the two families was he marriage of Vere's he grandson of his ...
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Lima - Page 247
Lima. He must have been sadly disappointed at losing this most tantalizing chance of escape. It was now evening, and the Earl of Southampton, Sir ...

San Francisco - Page 231
Vere then scoured the town and drove all the Spaniards out of the streets, either into the castle of San Felipe or the convent of San Francisco. ...

Palatine - Page 417
He published artist employed by the Elector a description of them, entitisd Palatine to design the gardens of Horlus Palalinu.,.

Boston - Page 387
They attempted to embark at Boston, but were seized, thrown into prison, and their goods confiscated. Another attempt, to escape was also prevented, ...