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On this day in 1584 William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard. Spanish King Philip had offered a reward of 25,000 crowns, peerage, and an inheritable estate to anyone who killed William whom he named a pest on the whole of Christianity
More Dutch soldiers were killed during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia (1812) than during World War Two.😳
@uitgeverarboris is al bekend welke verhalen in de volgende Baard en Kale Integraal komen?
Finished “The Hell of 1812” by @BartFunnekotter. A shocking account of the 15.000 Dutch soldiers who fought for Napoleon during the Russian campaign. 10.000 would not return. If it wasn’t for the Dutch engineers’ Napoleon's army would never have escaped across the Berezina river.