[80 years war]
Ticia wrote:
>
> It's this little rebellion the netherlanders had against
> friendly Spanish rule / world domination in Spain's golden
> age (the empire where the sun never set...) Lenghty
> chapters in Dutch history books, barely a paragraph
> in my Spanish history book...
>
Ah, there are lenghty chapters of it in _Brazilian_
history [but I didn't know that this war had a name]:
Portugal had been anschlussed by Spain,
and the Dutch tried to conquer the Northeast
of Brazil. Probably barely a paragraph in _dutch_
history about this too :-)
Alberto Monteiro
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