This book offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutch Republic.

Petra Groen (lead editor) is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Military History. For many years she was also professor of military history at Leiden University.

Adri van Vliet is deputy director of the Netherlands Institute of Military History. He specialises in the maritime history of the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Ronald Prud’homme van Reine is a maritime historian and independent researcher. He has written several biographies of leading figures in Dutch naval history.

Louis Sicking is the Aemilius Papinianus professor of the History of Public International Law at VU Amsterdam and lectures in medieval and early modern history at Leiden University.

Olaf van Nimwegen is a research affiliate at Utrecht University. He is an expert in the field of Dutch military history from 1500 to ca. 1800.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I: The Revolt in the Low Countries 1566–1588

1 The integration of the Low Countries
Louis Sicking

2 The Dutch Revolt
Olaf van Nimwegen & Louis Sicking

3 The insurgents’ army and navy
Olaf van Nimwegen, Adri van Vliet & Louis Sicking

4 The organisation and financing of the insurgents’ army and navy
Olaf van Nimwegen & Louis Sicking

PART II: The regular war for the Low Countries 1588–1648

5 The Republic at war
Olaf van Nimwegen & Ronald Prud’homme van Reine

6 Land and sea warfare
Olaf van Nimwegen & Ronald Prud’homme van Reine

7 The organisation and financing of the Republic’s army and navy
Olaf van Nimwegen & Ronald Prud’homme van Reine

8 The nature of the conflict (1568–1648)
Olaf van Nimwegen, Adri van Vliet & Petra Groen

Notes
Bibliography
Tables
Index
About the authors
Illustration credits