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Foreword | xi | |
List of Illustrations | xiv | |
List of Abbreviations | xv | |
K.W. Swart: His Career as a Historian | 1 | |
From 'Loyal Servant' to 'Irreconcilable Opponent' of Spain: Koenraad Swart's Interpretation of William of Orange, 1533-72 | 8 | |
1 | The Defence of Holland and Zeeland, 1572-76 | 29 |
Orange's finest hour | 29 | |
The religious revolution | 34 | |
The new political order | 43 | |
The baptism of fire withstood | 61 | |
Fruitless attempts to win foreign support | 70 | |
Marriage to Charlotte de Bourbon | 76 | |
Better war than an uncertain peace | 84 | |
Renewed Spanish offensive | 89 | |
The offer of Supreme Authority | 92 | |
Abandoned by the whole world | 96 | |
2 | The Whole Fatherland in Revolt, 1576-77 | 103 |
Orange's triumph | 103 | |
The Brussels coup d'etat | 105 | |
The Pacification of Ghent | 109 | |
Triumph in the duel with Don John | 114 | |
Orange becomes one of Queen Elizabeth's best friends | 128 | |
Entrusted with the leadership of the country's government | 132 | |
Plans for marriages between Orange's and Aerschot's children | 139 | |
The mutability of all earthly things | 142 | |
3 | The General Union Falls Apart, 1578-79 | 144 |
Holding court in the castle of Antwerp | 144 | |
The beginning of Orange's conflict with Ghent | 149 | |
Holland and Zeeland's stubborn self-will and the Union of Utrecht | 157 | |
Money is the sinew of war | 162 | |
Ghent temporarily taken in hand | 167 | |
Parma's first successes | 170 | |
The failure of the Cologne peace negotiations | 175 | |
Declining popularity | 180 | |
4 | Outlawry and Apology, 1580 | 186 |
5 | Fruitless Attempts to Turn the Spanish Tide, 1579-83 | 200 |
The war drags on at a snail's pace | 200 | |
Failed attempts to reform the government | 202 | |
Anjou chosen as overlord | 207 | |
Reasons for Orange's unfortunate French policy | 214 | |
Anjou's short-lived rule | 220 | |
6 | The Bitter End, 1583-84 | 233 |
The disastrous consequences of the French Fury | 233 | |
Reconciliation with Anjou | 235 | |
Return to Holland | 238 | |
Further enemy gains of territory | 242 | |
Count of Holland | 243 | |
Orange's political testament | 247 | |
The assassination of Orange | 252 | |
Bibliography | 258 | |
Archives | 258 | |
Pamphlets | 260 | |
Published sources and literature to 1800 | 262 | |
Literature since 1800 | 266 | |
Index | 275 |
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