A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . charges of insubordination or somemanifestation of heresy. William of Orange came to the rescueof the fatherland. A long and arduous struggle began, whichresulted in the Dutch Eepublic of the United Provinces, andthe ultimate prostration of the power of Spain. The inhabi-tants of Leyden, besieged by the Spanish forces, cut the dikesand brought in the sea to their rescue, which compelled theSpaniards to flee in dismay. Eequesens, the successor of Alva,was for a while successful, but after his death, in 1576, all theNetherlan
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . charges of insubordination or somemanifestation of heresy. William of Orange came to the rescueof the fatherland. A long and arduous struggle began, whichresulted in the Dutch Eepublic of the United Provinces, andthe ultimate prostration of the power of Spain. The inhabi-tants of Leyden, besieged by the Spanish forces, cut the dikesand brought in the sea to their rescue, which compelled theSpaniards to flee in dismay. Eequesens, the successor of Alva,was for a while successful, but after his death, in 1576, all theNetherlands united in the Pacification of Ghent in the Spanishdominion. In 1579 the seven provinces of the North Nether-lands formed the Utrecht Union. At the time of the forma-tion of the Utrecht Union, Alexander of Parma was proclaimed William an outlaw, and set a price on hishead. After six vain attempts to assassinate him, the heroicleader was finally shot in his own house (1584). His work asa deliverer of his people had, however, been mainly Galley of the Sixteenth Century CHAPTER LV THE CIVIL WAES IN FRANCE, TO THE DEATH OF HENRY IV, (1610) Francis I.; Henry II. — Francis I. was a friend of tlie newlearning, but in religious matters it was impossible to predictwhat position he would assume. He was governed by politicalconsiderations. He would put down Protestantism at home,and sustain it by force, if expedient, abroad. His son, HenryII., who succeeded him in 1547, had no sympathy whateverwith the new doctrine. Yet, in spite of persecution, theHuguenots (as the Calvinists were called) had, in 1558, twothousand places of worship in France. In 1559 Henry diedfrom a wound in the eye, accidentally inflicted in a tilt. Catharine de Medici; the Two Parties. — The widow of HenryII., Catharine de Medici, was a woman of talents who hadbeen trained from infancy in an atmosphere of deceit and im-morality. She expected to manage the government of her son,Franc
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