“I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.”

— William the Silent

Writing to his brother John after an unsuccessful campaign, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 64

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stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the … 1533–1584

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