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CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. 1600
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CHAPTER XL. 1602-1603
CHAPTER XLI. 1603-1604
CHAPTER XLII.
CHAPTER XLIII. 1604-1605
CHAPTER XLIV.
CHAPTER XLV. 1605-1607
CHAPTER XLVI.
CHAPTER XLVII. 1607
CHAPTER XLVIII.
CHAPTER XLIX. 1607
CHAPTER L. 1608
CHAPTER LI. 1608
CHAPTER LII. 1609
CHAPTER LIII.
CONCLUSION.
Military events—Aggressive movement of the Netherlanders—State of the Archdukes provinces—Mutiny of the Spanish forces—Proposed invasion of Flanders by the States-General—Disembarkation of the troops on the Spanish coasts—Capture of Oudenburg and other places —Surprise of Nieuport—Conduct of the Archduke—Oudenburg and the other forts re-taken—Dilemma of the States' army—Attack of the Archduke on Count Ernest's cavalry—Panic and total overthrow of the advance-guard of the States' army—Battle of Nieuport—Details of the action—Defeat of the Spanish army—Results of the whole expedition.
The effect produced in the republic by the defensive and uneventful campaigning of the year 1599 had naturally been depressing. There was murmuring at the vast amount of taxation, especially at the new imposition of one-half per cent. upon all property, and two-and-a-half per cent. on all sales, which seemed to produce so few results. The successful protection of the Isle of Bommel and the judicious purchase of the two forts of Crevecoeur and St. Andrew; early in the following year, together with their garrisons, were not military events of the first magnitude, and were hardly enough to efface the mortification felt at the fact that the