Tableaux and dances representing art and life in the Dutchprovinces.
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The DutchProvinces, long coveted, were now in their possession, along with the Athena colonies.
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Thus Alva by his cruelty became the unwitting instrument of the future independence of the seven Dutchprovinces.
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In 1566 the Netherlands rose in revolt, and after many bloody battles, the northern or Dutchprovinces succeeded in breaking away from Spanish rule.
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During the fearful revolt of the negroes in the Dutchprovinces, several tribes of them were engaged by the Dutch Government to assist the whites.
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Nevertheless the French domination, however oppressive, had good results in that for the first time in their history the Dutchprovinces acquired a real unity.