Identifier: storyofourchrist00bird (find matches)
Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t value. Large contributions came also from Hoogstraten,Culemberg, and other nobles, from the Flemish exiles in England, from theDutch cities, and from the German relatives of the prince. Alliances were madewith several Protestant rulers, and nothing neglected that could be done at this•early stage to secure the sinews of war. A private attempt against Alva failed. He was to be attacked publiclyfrom three different quarters at the same time, but one of these enterprises was■delayed. Villars, with near three thousand men, entered from the east aboutApril 20th, and tried to enter Roermonde in Liinburg, but was not successfulA Spanish force, in numbers inferior to his own, attacked him with fury a few■days later, and cut his troops to pieces in two engagements near Dalhem. Heand the survivors were soon captured. BATTLE OF THE HOLY LION. Louis of Nassau had already raised the standard of revolt in the northIn this region, much less densely peopled than the southern provinces, and in
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DUTCH GIRLS IN THEIR WORKING DRESS. jDarts a marshy wilderness, he and his young brother Adolphus gathered amotley army of Beggars, adventurers, and whatever came to hand—some ofthem good fighters, but many raw recruits and poorly armed. With this indif-ferent array, held together largely by the hope of pay and booty—the first hardto get, the other extremely doubtful—they gained some small successes,threatened Groningen, and prepared to meet the terrible Spanish veterans. 5o6 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. Only able generalship could do anything with such means against such odds ; butLouis was the man for the task, and was now to win the first victory for freedom. Count Aremberg was stadtholder of Frisia, and one of the firmest nativesupports of tyranny. Though crippled and tormented by the gout, he was sent.to his province to put down the insurgents. On May 22d, a skirmish occurredat Dam, in the northeast comer of the Netherlands. That night Louis marchedsouthwards, and encampe

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