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Updated: May 26, 2025
The possession of Lillo and Liefkenshoek restored to the patriots the command of the river to within three miles of the bridge, and enabled the Zeeland fleet to be brought up at that point. Another blow was now meditated. There was in Antwerp an Italian named Gianobelli, a man of great science and inventive power.
Had this request been complied with it is certain that Parma's bridge would have been utterly destroyed; but the leading men were building a great ship or floating castle of their own design, from which they expected such great things that they christened it the End of the War. Gianobelli had warned them that this ship would certainly turn out a failure.
However, they persisted, and instead of granting him the ships he wanted, only gave him two small vessels of seventy and eighty tons. Although disgusted with their parsimony on so momentous an occasion, Gianobelli set to work with the aid of two skilful artisans of Antwerp to fit them up. In the hold of each vessel a solid flooring of brick and mortar a foot thick was first laid down.
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