Tableaux and dances representing art and life in the Dutch provinces.

Thus Alva by his cruelty became the unwitting instrument of the future independence of the seven Dutch provinces.

The hottest areas were in the Dutch province of Brabant and across the Belgian border in the Flemish province of Limburg.

In 1566 the Netherlands rose in revolt, and after many bloody battles, the northern or Dutch provinces succeeded in breaking away from Spanish rule.

Goudsmit has analyzed one of the towns hit hardest by the PCP epidemic, the mining town of Heerlen in the Dutch province of Limburg.

During the fearful revolt of the negroes in the Dutch provinces, several tribes of them were engaged by the Dutch Government to assist the whites.

Nevertheless the French domination, however oppressive, had good results in that for the first time in their history the Dutch provinces acquired a real unity.