Eighty Years' War (1624 - 1629) Ep. 19 - Conquerer of Towns

[@DefraggedHistory]

"The end of the Republic is nigh!" is my favorite bit of this episode. What's yours?

[@anthroposium]

My favourite bit is the analogy of the divorcing parents fighting with their child and step-child in the middle :)

[@Raadpensionaris]

I like the part in which it is clear that the Republic is asserting its independece from France and England. The reputation of the Republic in England and France lagged behind its military capabilities, so this was very much needed.

[@MixerRenegade95]

You were not kidding when you had said that things would more or less come together in Frederick Hendrick, holy smokes!

[@johndavid7065]

So many good parts, hard to pick just one. I guess mine would be your voice. Your tones and rhythm are so perfectly set with the way you present your stories. So much fun!

[@OttoVonRibagnac]

"Federico Henrique" 😂🤣😂

[@louisvalencia5244]

This is possibly one of my most awaited moments lately. I am so excited to watch this when I get back home.

[@DefraggedHistory]

Let me know what you thought!

[@paddyneill1964]

Agreed 😎

[@anotherdaywasted2297]

Maurits and Spinola were the greatest military stars of the pre-truce decades of the Eighty Years' War. And here they are, gone from illness before they saw the end of their battles. But to think, Maurits was a teen when his father was assassinated and he began to take over for the Dutch revolt. Spinola was in his 30s when he took over for the Siege of Ostend. They became old men when so many of their contemporaries died. And still, the war goes on without them, from one generation to another. This feeling is like being dwarfed by the scale of history.

[@DefraggedHistory]

I wonder if they would have preferred to die in battle.

[@dominicguye8058]

*'80 Years' War'* yeah I expected as much

[@GIjoe614]

That's wat 1st got me 2 click this video 2 see how a war would progress over 80 years as generations died while the next came of age over such a long period of time

[@cassandrag2406]

This series has single handedly inspired me to write my MA Thesis on the WIC and Dutch Colonial ventures in the Americas

[@DefraggedHistory]

There's a lot to unpack there! Good luck! I'll be tackling the history of New Amsterdam, soon.

[@HugoRune72]

Always a good day when a new one of these comes out many thanks

[@malcolmduncan]

Glad to see the return of one of my favourite history KZbinrs. Excellent video as always.

[@DefraggedHistory]

Thanks for coming back to watch it! 🙏

[@danielscallon7515]

Very impressed with the Nassau family. Three generations of hard-working, personable, honorable heroes fighting for their country and trying to mediate its internal struggles. Thank you again for this spectacular series. I gotta confess I get lost in all the names and places, but the narrative remains clear and pulls me in each time. Keep it coming!

[@juliantrumpp4744]

Awesome to see the series continuing! Appreciate your hard work.

[@BizmasterStudios]

These episodes never cease to amaze me. As someone whom has an interest in history, I am eating these up like a gourmet sandwich. So few people put so much effort, detail and history behind videos, and you make it fun to watch on top of that!

[@deinemutter8999]

YAY. Always an instant click when youre video is out. THANK YOU!

[@svg3876]

So happy this came out today. But sad cause this is Mauritz last episode.

[@tugboattedd]

I’ve been listening to this all week and I think it’s been the most interesting of my life. Definitely helps pass the dreary hours at work. I will sit down and actually watch this whole thing over. You roped me in with the Kursk series. I tell everyone about you. Thanks, from Darkest Michigan….

[@Raadpensionaris]

Frederik Hendrik proving again why logistics are one of the most important aspects of warfare. One town taken and your whole offensive is in ruin. The other highlight was Piet Hein of course. He will be the only one in history to ever capture such a large part of the Spanish treasure fleets. Says a lot about him and about Spanish abilities

[@DefraggedHistory]

The main error here was considered Lozano in his ambition creating a breach. He actually thought he could because of the ongoing Siege and no one would be able to get to him. I do think it was odd to only have one proper line. Perhaps the loss of the two earlier places limited options? I spent some time looking at how the supply line ran, but I didn't want to speculate too much.

[@Raadpensionaris]

@@DefraggedHistory Yeah Lozano indeed fucked it up big time, but it still shows how crucial one point of a supply line can be for a whole operation. In 1673 William III of Orange and Montecuccoli will take advantage of that too. Hope you will cover that someday ;)

[@johndavid7065]

The time and work you put into these must be tremendous. Really cool using some videos from the reenactment. You must've had so much fun. I'm so glad to finally get a new episode. Was really missing you! Great work again🙂 Hope you're all well and happy over there.

[@DefraggedHistory]

With the holidays, me getting ill and losing my voice for a week, and the constant rewrites before I was satisfied with it, slowed the process down by a month. But I'm glad it's finally out now. Thanks for waiting!

[@foetsie85]

was waiting for this haha..let´s gooo almost there

[@DefraggedHistory]

Maybe for the last one, I'll make it a premiere video, so we can all have a chat while watching.

[@foetsie85]

@@DefraggedHistory that would be so awsome do it!

[@lbergen001]

Thank you so much again for this magnificent piece of history telling 👍👍I enjoyed every minute of it.

[@MixerRenegade95]

Defragged welkom bak! Ih dank dih mihhilo vor giozzan uz disiu viurih wirkun, anti riht naho vorgoz a enstiig niuwi jaar zi du as wola :)

[@sansifer529]

Good to see another great video! And Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu of course.

[@henryvegter8773]

Hello 19 been patiently waiting- thanks 👍

[@igor-yp1xv]

I LOVED this series, thank you so much. Gonna head for your Macbeth series now. Hope you do many more!

[@lilstarship34]

Working at the hospital rn but omg I can’t wait to get off shift for this later 😍

[@DefraggedHistory]

Let me know what you thought. ☺️

[@chriskirschten203]

Every episode is my favorite episode!

[@victorheinsberg1212]

Great as always!

[@solinvictus39]

I anxiously await each one of these episodes! I wish all history on youtube was done as well as this.

[@DefraggedHistory]

Thanks 🙏

[@jeremycunningham7897]

Glad to c this out! Wonderful epic story - great work :)

[@andrewhodge3038]

Just binged the lot, from episode 1 to now - fantastic stuff! As someone who lives in one of the old VOC pit stops, Cape Town (Kaapstad), it’s been intriguing following this series - this conflict appears to be quite foundational to South Africa’s complex History. Can’t wait for the next episode… Baie dankie, en sterke!

[@DefraggedHistory]

Thanks for watching and sharing your insights.

[@AndrewIsola1]

Oh thank God finally !! 19!

[@manic2360]

These being uploaded has become a "thing".. All life distractions are over, Im settled, have a nice cuppa tea and a good smoke... let the best documentary series on YT begin..

[@DefraggedHistory]

Love it! Hope you enjoyed your "thing".

[@johndensum8000]

Hello…missing my 80 years war stuff…am having to lie to the grandkids as I am watching the last 10 minutes of 19 over and over again. HELP

[@JugglingAddict]

Finally another episode! I'm gonna sit back relax, take my time and enjoy, because this is very good edutainment!!!

[@DefraggedHistory]

Hope you enjoyed it ☺️

[@JugglingAddict]

@@DefraggedHistory Sure did. 😁😁😁

[@nicholasjones7774]

Outstanding once again

[@DefraggedHistory]

Thanks for watching, again. 🙏

[@gregorylittle1461]

Yay!! Can’t wait!!

[@chemicalcowpoke307]

Bravo! Such outstanding content!

[@DefraggedHistory]

Thank you kindly!

[@dorengarcia7925]

Great story telling of an undertold story of a pivotal war in Western History... I've thoroughly enjoyed it and looking forward to watching it again as the story is so complex and convoluted and yet, as a US citizen, directly related to our revolution and... our name.

[@thesarcast795]

Can't wait for the next one!

[@foxtanker4055]

Watching this from Amersfoort. Well now I will look upon the old town in a new light.

[@hashimbokhamseen7877]

lovely video. to be honest I still think that 'ruined little nest' is the Best siege episode you made

[@MLWitteman]

A new video! This made my day. 🎉

[@larsdejong7396]

Got to hand it to them, it takes quite some skill to take an empire that literally receives a massive fleet of gold and silver each year, and then proceed to completely run it into the ground. This, kids, is why economic strategy is important(beyond just: silver and gold).

[@MixerRenegade95]

Oh Defragged, oh Defragged, war za habet Du uns gibrahti? Hel, diz werk Ih will bi missen. In a weg Ih alratig bin.

[@rossjohnstone2333]

I adore all that you do I'm telling everyone I know to watch the magic you do Ross

[@HansMaartenSpoon]

Excellent job! Congrats! I myself studied some NL history at uni but found it relatively boring and mostly of little importance. You've succeeded in making an important piece of Du history come alive (and actually made very funny in the process). Great detail, great story, and perfect for long winter evenings. Thanks a lot!

[@DefraggedHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@21nickik]

These series is so fucking good its not even fair to any other history content.

[@DefraggedHistory]

And still I constantly think of all the ways it could be better. Thanks for your kind words, though.

[@bigchungus4336]

Did you know if you look up quality in the dictionary - it's just a picture of the DH logo? Where do you find most of the maps used in your vids? And do you edit them (the vids) yourself?

[@DefraggedHistory]

Thanks. Nearly all maps are from Rijksstudio, part of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection, and I do everything myself.

[@RianHagebeuk]

's Hertogenbosch: U I T G E P O L D E R D

[@gregorylittle1461]

Excellent presentation! Maybe they should have gone back for the other two thirds of the Silver Fleet. Just a thought. Waiting with baited breath for the next installment (and maybe Gustavus Adolphus' entry into the 30 Year's War. Would this make a difference?).

[@tugboattedd]

Interesting enough , my childhood friend turned brother in law, Robert Tromp is a descendant of Lt Adm. Tromp.

[@altinaykor364]

I lost it when you called England and France "Mom And Dad"🤣🤣🤣

[@introsig7696]

What do you think about the Alatriste movie? Is ti accurate in the customs and ambiance depiction?

[@RianHagebeuk]

God save us from field battles 💀

[@creolekolbytv]

Benjamin de Rohan Soubise is my distant ancestor I’m a Rohan! Love uncovering the history

[@napolien1310]

1:17:19 90000 soldier Prince Maurice is turning in his grave screaming "if you have that much money why didn't you pay to enlarge my armies"

[@DefraggedHistory]

Well, when Holland is under direct threat, everything is possible. 😉 But the army's size is getting huge.

[@juzores1]

Girrrrl you are on fire.

[@Back4Fungame]

perfect

[@triggertroy8266]

Does this channel still post content ?? Or is there a second channel i dont know of ?

[@DefraggedHistory]

New video just went up.

[@triggertroy8266]

@@DefraggedHistory yes!!!! It's so riveting that at times I'll check two or 3 times in the month just because I thought I might have missed the video drop .

[@anthroposium]

Isn't the WIC called "Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie" instead of Vereenigde ... at 41:15?

[@DefraggedHistory]

Yup. Confused it with the two names for the VOC. Well, at least I got it right in the previous episode. ;-)

[@larsdejong7396]

I was wondering when England and France would resume the tradition that they started a few centuries ago.

[@philipdemaeyer1665]

54:34 and he opened the first Albert Hein, and still hasn’t gone out of stock. These spaniards had some cargo aboard. 😅

[@DefraggedHistory]

Next doc, the Forgotten History of Albert Heijn, what historians don't want you to know. 😉

[@eldritchwulfe]

1:03:00 aren't virgins supposed to have perk breasts errrr I mean defences?

[@JustinianG]

Can we do a collaboration? I need just a tiny bit of help. And I promise I'll help u too

[@dutchman7623]

Looking forward to episode 20! Will you manage to get the last twenty years into one and a half hour? And this one was well done as always. Thanks!

[@DefraggedHistory]

A. It will be a longer grand finale. Though there's not enough to fill yet another episode. And * spoilers * B. There are quite a few years in which virtually nothing happens.

[@TheBiskitsnGravy]

WHOOOOOOH!

[@brianlawrenson2815]

Like rats in a barrel. Exactly what is happening in the world right now,we just dont learn

[@maartenklaps3507]

🎉🙏🏽❤️

[@simdal3088]

9/11 1629 never forget 😂

[@dutchman7623]

Waarom werkt jouw 👎 niet? 🤪

[@simdal3088]

@@dutchman7623 Geen idee, misschien dat soort vragen aan youtube stellen.

[@dutchman7623]

@@simdal3088 Was 'n grapje. KZbin heeft dislikes uitgeschakeld, al jaren terug. Dus het werkt bij geen enkele video. Maar historisch gezien staat niet iedereen aan dezelfde kant. Van de 65.000 inwoners en vluchtelingen die 's-Hertogenbosch rijk was, groter dan Utrecht en slechts weinig minder dan Amsterdam, hebben 15.000 het beleg niet overleefd en 35.000 zijn na de capitulatie gevlucht uit de stad. Op hun vlucht naar Luik, Turnhout, Antwerpen en Brussel, zijn ze door Staatse troepen achtervolgd en geplunderd, weinigen bereikten hun bestemming ongeschonden. Degene die bleven hebben 175 jaar in onderdrukking geleefd. 11 september 1629 was niet voor iedereen een blije dag. Maar ja, het waren allemaal Spanjaarden, met echte Spaanse namen zoals Michiel van Ophoven, Antony van Grobbendonck, Ruud van Griensven... Zelfs ik ben opgegroeid tussen militair machtsvertoon, in een stad waar het grootste plein een 'militair oefenterrein' was. Er werd met tanks, pantservoertuigen en vrachtwagens gereden door onze wijk. En schoolzwemmen ging samen met honderden soldaten uit de acht kazernes in de stad.

[@simdal3088]

​@@dutchman7623 Karma

[@DefraggedHistory]

@Dutch Man I'll be dealing with some of the aftermath of the Den Bosch siege in the next episode - it's a whole thing. After this siege, policies did change (for a while at least). I love how the Noordbrabants museum talks about this; as part of a continuum. Worth a visit!

[@kaj8234]

:3

[@minoutarromantic5805]

I think the biggest mistake was when Philip II was bullying Don Juan of Austria, someone who loved glory and his private part more than men love having a nice day. The thought of smashing Mary Queen of Scots and finally being called 'Your Majesty' would've have made him turn into the second coming of Alexander the Great. That wasn't the only mistake thought, not annihilating the English fleet based in Plymouth was also another golden chance turned into dust because of Philip II's stupidity at telling the weak-willed Duke Medina Sidonia to not engage the enemy until he joined Farnese, only if necessary. Do you think it was possible for Spain to end up thriving against your rebellious ancestors? Charles maybe shouldn't have divided the Empire the way he did, and given the Netherlands to the Austrian monarch but with hindsight it's easier to blame him, and he's someone I really love. I can't help as a Brazilian to not feel depressed about how my Iberian cousins suffered so much because of the Dutch and other protestants. I'd love to have the "Catholic" William the Silent see how little Christian unity there is in Europe, and the whole world today. Muito triste, não? Malditos holandeses, bom que o Messi lhes deu uma lição. I miss this 'Iberian Golden Age', sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong era. I would've have been hanging out with Don Juan of Austria, butchering some heretics and infidels, having Dutch ladies from Utrecht with my spicy Criollo Portuguese with their pants wet, debating literature and history with the like of Cervantes and Camões, and wooing some mature confident women in Flanders or elsewhere, like Margaret of Parma, to late at night have my ass whooped and be cursed in Dutch like a harlot, while mounting. I don't even want to see the Battle of Rocroi when you get there, ugh! Truly the end of medieval Christendom and the Iberian powers, and done by the hands of a self-proclaimed "cardinal of the Church". At least Richelieu wasn't able to see Rocroi, as he died a year earlier after a lifetime of betraying any sense of Catholic unity and dooming such unity forever. Interesting to think what would've happened if Spain defeated the Dutch or conquered England. If the handsome Don Juan conquered England, everything would've turned out alright, he'd be impregnating each British lady he can find, including Elizabeth, while Mary Queen of Scots would be winning the grace of the people, as she was as legitimate as Elizabeth. And this was the issue as Philip doomed this by not wanting to have a Valois royal as Queen of England, he wanted to put his own hands on it. If the Marquis of Santa Cruz had conquered England, then Philip would've put himself as the ruler of there and maybe this would've eventually led to conflict with France, and even the Pope, against such Habsburg hegemony and Habsburg Church. Whether Don Juan or Santa Cruz had been in London, history would've likely ended the same, with us today living under an Catholic inquisition and Spanish would be the universal language. But with the rise of mass literacy and capitalism, then royalty and the Church would've eventually crumbled, even with an universal rule with of a descendant of Charles V, as the prophecies wished. Maybe the destinity of modern history is unchangeable. What do you think? But still, it's still Interesting to imagine how different the would would've have been, if only Philip wasn't a idiot and jealous and let his sexy half-brother bastard do what he wants. Great channel, btw. Wink wink nudge nudge!

[@Depipro]

Please allow me to take your jests just one small step further, kind Sir! Unity in Christendom! An interesting concept... I think it would have had a glimmer of hope if, from the very beginning, people wouldn't have listened to Saul of Tarsus more than they did to Jeshua of Nazareth. And for that to work, the combined authorities in Jerusalem at the time were a bit early to crucify Him. I'm pretty sure He'd have had more useful things to say and do, had he lived longer. Everything after that was just bickering in the margins and prelates mistaking earthly power for the Mandate of Heaven.

[@minoutarromantic5805]

@@Depipro I agree with you, my brother. So many mistakes men did to stop any kind of permanent Christian unity.

[@napolien1310]

It was a wise choice for Charles V to divide the empire, it was too big too diverse uncentralised big mess and impossible for one man to govern Charles himself was so powerful and won against the French but even with that couldn't centralise the empire and that's why he divided it, Charles can't simply give the low countries to the HRE it is under the jurisdiction of Burgundy which is under the HRE legally, even if the Armada managed to reach England the whole population of England will refuse Mary Queen of the Scotts she is Catholic and the population already hated bloody Mary and wouldn't like another one to terrorise them. And how can you say you feel depressed for your iberian cousins suffered by the Dutch and the protestants! Did you forget about what Philip II did!! If only he allowed the Dutch to do what they want as per their laws none of this would have happened. The Spanish are the ones who terrorised the Dutch. And Don Juan seem to be a paranoid mess when he came to the low countries.

[@minoutarromantic5805]

@@napolien1310 I agree with you, with hindsight it's easy to judge but it clearly was something too big for only person to handle.

[@napolien1310]

@@minoutarromantic5805 exactly Charles V wished for the universal monarchy with a centralise under the same laws government but it was impossible I mean the low countries alone have 17 provinces where each have their own set of laws of what Charles can do or can't. In Iberia it was divided between Castile and Aragon, and since Philip government in Castile he doesn't have jurisdiction in Aragon that's why his secretary ran there because he knows Philip II can't catch him unless he want to anger the Aragonian nobles. Not to mention the duchies in Italy Naple sicilia...etc