betuwe

Updated: June 27, 2025

The Earl had taken some forts in the Batavia Betuwe; or "good meadow," which he pronounced as fertile and about as large as Herefordshire, and was now threatening Nymegen, a city which had been gained for Philip by the last effort of Schenk, on the royalist side.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete