1.3 Start of the Dutch Revolt

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The start of the Dutch Revolt

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Can you give two reasons why the Dutch people were angry at Philip II?

What is NOT a task that the Duke of Alva has to do?

1. To centralise the provinces of the Netherlands
2. To built catholic churches
3. To punish revolting people
4. To persecute protestants

Which position was the highest within a province?

1. the king
2. governor
3. stadholder
4. mayor

Describe what happened during the Iconoclastic Fury

The start of the revolt

• The Spanish soldiers robbed and plundered
  Dutch cities. 
• Consequence: the Dutch started to revolt, led
   by William of Orange.

             → the revolters were calles Sea Beggars
             (watergeuzen)

The start of the Revolt

• The Dutch had one advantage: they did not use mercenaries 
• Also, the Dutch knew the area they fought on way better. They attacked by small, strategic attacks, such as drowing a city and Spanish soldiers → e.g. Siege of Leiden

Union of Utrecht

In 1579, the provinces that were against Philip
decided to form an alliance: the Union
of Utrecht.

They had a common army and decided
that Philip would no longer be their king. 

Consequences Union of Utrecht

• 1584: William of Orange was declared outlawed
• 1585: The fall of Antwerp: the most important city of the Low Countries was conquered by the Spanish Army.

The Netherlands now existed of the Northern (protestant) Netherlands and the Southern (catholic) Netherlands. 

The start of the Dutch Revolt

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