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There were six gates to the town, each provided with ravelins, and there was a doubt in what direction the first attack should be made. Opinions wavered between the gate of Bois-le-Duc, next the river, and that of Tongres on the south-western side, but it was finally decided to attempt the gate of Tongres.
He accordingly collected a force of four thousand infantry, together with two hundred mounted lancers; having previously reconnoitered the ground. He relied very much, for the success of the undertaking, on Captain Kleerhagen, a Brussels nobleman, whose wife was a native of Bois-le-Duc, and who was thoroughly familiar with the locality.
The woollen manufactures of the Netherlands had, about the time that Guicciardini wrote, been rivalled by those of England: yet he says, that, though their wool was very coarse, above 12,000 pieces of cloth were made at each of the following places; Amsterdam, Bois-le-duc, Delft, Haarlem, and Leyden. Woollen manufactures were carried on also at other places, besides taffeties and tapestries.
They are like a beautiful theme given by God which men distort into a thousand different meanings a canvas upon which the imagination of man paints and embroiders after its own manner. I left the Hague Gallery with one desire ungratified: I had not found in it any picture by Jerom Bosch, a painter born at Bois-le-Duc in the fifteenth century.
Effects of the Nieuport campaign The general and the statesman The Roman empire and the Turk Disgraceful proceedings of the mutinous soldiers in Hungary The Dunkirk pirates Siege of Ostend by the Archduke Attack on Rheinberg by Prince Maurice Siege and capitulation of Meura Attempt on Bois-le-Duc Concentration of the war at Ostend Account of the belligerents Details of the siege Feigned offer of Sir Francis Vere to capitulate Arrival of reinforcements from the States Attack and overthrow of the besiegers.
Effects of the Nieuport campaign The general and the statesman The Roman empire and the Turk Disgraceful proceedings of the mutinous soldiers in Hungary The Dunkirk pirates Siege of Ostend by the Archduke Attack on Rheinberg by Prince Maurice Siege and capitulation of Meura Attempt on Bois-le-Duc Concentration of the war at Ostend Account of the belligerents Details of the siege Feigned offer of Sir Francis Vere to capitulate Arrival of reinforcements from the States Attack and overthrow of the besiegers.
He accordingly collected a force of four thousand infantry, together with two hundred mounted lancers; having previously reconnoitered the ground. He relied very much, for the success of the undertaking, on Captain Kleerhagen, a Brussels nobleman, whose wife was a native of Bois-le-Duc, and who was thoroughly familiar with the locality.
One of the main sources of supply was the city of Hertogenbosch, or Bois-le-Duc. It was one of the four chief cities of Brabant, and still held for the King, although many towns in its immediate neighbourhood had espoused the cause of the republic. The States had long been anxious to effect a diversion for the relief of Antwerp, by making an attack on Bois-le-Duc.
The governor, two preachers, and about forty of the citizens were hanged by the victors, and the reformed religion prohibited. Noircarmes promptly followed up his success. Maestricht, Turnhout, and Bois-le-duc submitted at his approach; and the insurgents were soon driven from all the provinces, Holland alone excepted. Brederode fled to Germany, where he died the following year.
Riots caused by unstable labour conditions had already taken place in Bois-le-Duc and Brussels . In Ghent, however, the movement acquired more threatening proportions, the magistrates being overwhelmed by the crowd and the workmen seizing the direction of affairs.
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