The Disaster Year 1672 - Franco-Dutch War | Background History

In 1672 Louis XIV of France saw that the Dutch were busy with internal struggles and saw them as ripe pickings. Let's find out if he was right or not!

Friesland in the Dutch Golden Age:    • History of Friesland - The Dutch Gold...  
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SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

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MUSIC AND SOUND CREDITS

Title card and chapter music by Matthijs Rooks, check him out!
http://matthijsrooks.nl/

Music (in order of appearance):
"How it begins" by Kevin MacLeod via https://incompetech.com/music/
"Symphony No. 85, 2. Romance: Allegretto" by Haydn
"Drums of the Deep" by Kevin MacLeod
"Midnight Tale" by Kevin MacLeod
"Dama-May" by Kevin MacLeod
"Prelude and Action" by Kevin MacLeod
"Wilhelmus" via    • Dutch National Anthem - Het Wilhelmus...  
"Vive Henri IV" via    • Kingdom of France's Anthem - "Vive He...  
"Tempting Secrets" by Kevin MacLeod
"Autumn II Adagio Molto" by Vivaldi via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Autumn I Allegro" by Vivaldi via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Autumn III Allegro" by Vivaldi via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Radetzky March" by Strauss via https://www.navyband.navy.mil/
"Heart of Nowhere" by Kevin MacLeod
"Spring II Largo" by Vivaldi via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Air on the G String" by Bach via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Snare drums from:    • Military Marching Drums Sound Effect  

Other Sound effects from FilmCow and https://www.zapsplat.com/
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SOURCES

⮞ Books:
• Blok, P.J., Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche volk: Deel 3, boek 8 (Leiden, 1925) via: https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/blok013ges...
• Doedens, A., Y. Kortlever, and L. Mulder, Geschiedenis van Nederland: Het verhaal van prehistorie tot heden (Zutphen, 2015)
• Kooistra, D., Frieslands verleden: De Friezen en hun geschiedenis in vijftig verhalen (Bornmeer, 2016)
• Palmer, R.R., J. Colton & L. Kramer, A History of Europe in the Modern World (New York, 2014)
• Panhuysen, L., Rampjaar 1672: Hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte (Amsterdam, 2009)

⮞ Websites:
• Friese Waterlinie, Friese Waterlinie (n.d) https://www.friesewaterlinie.nl/over/
• DeRyter, Binnenzeeslag op de Waterlinie (2022) https://www.deruyter.org/uploads/medi...
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IMAGE AND MAPS CREDITS

Texture for the background from: https://3djungle.net/textures/​​

⮞ Maps:
• The base map is based on OpenStreetMap:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/

• Map of French subdivision based on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• The Low Countries:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Early-Modern France:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Dutch provinces:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

• Nassau Counties:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• East Friesland:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Prince-bishoprics of Münster and Cologne:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lo...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Austria and HRE:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ce...

• Brandenburg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pr...

• Dutch Innundations:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Duchy of Lorraine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
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00:00 Intro
00:34 The Rising Sun
05:56 Guerre Éclaire
11:11 Radeloos, Redeloos, Reddeloos
17:29 Je Maintiendrai