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The Eighty Years War (1567-1659) has been the subject of important monographs but the high command of the Army of Flanders, which played a decisive role in the making of Spanish strategy and was in charge of its tactics, has eluded detailed scrutiny. This work, the first study of an early modern officer corps, examines the culture, class structure, and combat effectiveness of the largest army of its day. Combining approaches and insights from social, cultural and military history, it traces the evolution of the leading cadres of the legendary tercios in relation to major trends such as aristocratization and military modernization while revising recent perspectives on Spain ́s war against the Dutch and the French in the Low Countries.… (meer)
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“Llamamos a los holandeses de herejes, y ellos nos llaman papistas a nosotros. Yo temo son al revés estos dos títulos, pues ellos se papan las plazas y nosotros las herejías del mal gobierno. Flandes [?], no hay tal Flandes como haber tenido un Conde Duque para su regalo. Más debes a este príncipe con la muleta que al Duque de Alba con la espada. El uno te hizo la barba a pelo, y el otro a cuchillo.”
Letter from a Madrid courtier to an Andalusian nobleman, 20–4–1642 (Memorial Histórico Español, vol 17, IV, 332–333).
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To the dead of the Army of Flanders.
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On the fourteenth of April 1574, immediately after his Spanish soldiers had annihilated the Dutch army of Count Louis of Nassau in a fierce battle at Mook that left five thousand rebels on the field but only a handful of Spaniards, the Castellan of Antwerp Sancho Dávila sat down to write a report of the event to his Captain General, don Luis de Requesens.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Should we be surprised that the war lasted eighty years?
The Eighty Years War (1567-1659) has been the subject of important monographs but the high command of the Army of Flanders, which played a decisive role in the making of Spanish strategy and was in charge of its tactics, has eluded detailed scrutiny. This work, the first study of an early modern officer corps, examines the culture, class structure, and combat effectiveness of the largest army of its day. Combining approaches and insights from social, cultural and military history, it traces the evolution of the leading cadres of the legendary tercios in relation to major trends such as aristocratization and military modernization while revising recent perspectives on Spain ́s war against the Dutch and the French in the Low Countries.
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