Engraving of the death of William the Silent, Prince of Orange in 1584, illustration from 'The history of Protestantism' by James Aitken Wylie (1808-1890), pub. 1878. William was the main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1581.

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