BELAGERUNG DET STATT OSTENDE, ANGEFANG EN DEN 26 MAIJ 1601 UBERGEBEN DEN 20 SEPT. ANNO 1604

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7" x 9-1/2" - 17.7 x 24.1 cm. Copper engraved map. map trimmed laid down on later margin else very good. 2004 is the four hundredth anniversary of the end of the siege of Ostend, one of the bloodiest events of the Eighty Years' War. Described as a 'long carnival of death', it lasted an exhausting three years, two months and seventeen days.The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) was the war of the Netherlands independence from Spain. Spanish rule had been imposed on the Netherlands in 1519 when Charles V was crowned Holy Roman emperor and king of Spain. Discontent at this rule lead to a revolution in 1567, resulting in the separation of the northern and southern Netherlands. While the south remained Spanish, the north formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands (the Dutch Republic).