⌂ Atlas ☰ Read as a page The thread: How did seven provinces in revolt against their king become, by 1660, a sovereign republic run without a prince, its companies holding forts from the Hudson to Batavia?
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Key

The Republic, its regents and companies The princes of Orange and their party Spain and the Spanish Netherlands Portugal England France bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Johan van Oldenbarnevelt — the Flanders expedition, the VOC, the truce, the Sharp Resolution, arrest and execution — source
  2. Slag bij Nieuwpoort (1600): the States' push for Dunkirk, Maurits's march and Albert's — source
  3. The Santa Catarina incident, 25 February 1603 — Singapore National Library Board, Infopedia — source
  4. Twelve Years' Truce: the 1607 ceasefire, the Hague talks, the Indies question, Antwerp 1609 — source
  5. Synod of Dort, 1618–1619, and Maria van Reigersberch and the book chest, 22 March 1621 — source
  6. Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands, 1609–1621 — source
  7. Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch, 1629: the dykes and mills, the Veluwe diversion, Wesel — source
  8. Hendrik van den Bergh (1573–1638): command, the loss of Den Bosch, the defection of 1632 — source
  9. Dutch Brazil, 1630–1654: Olinda and Recife, Johan Maurits, the 1645 revolt, Guararapes, the capitulation — source
  10. Peace of Münster, 30 January and 15 May 1648 — source
  11. First Stadtholderless Period: the coup of 30 July 1650, the Great Assembly, the Act of Seclusion — source
  12. New Sweden: Minuit's colony of 1638 and Stuyvesant's conquest of 1655 — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

The Netherlands, 1600–1660

How did seven provinces in revolt against their king become, by 1660, a sovereign republic run without a prince, its companies holding forts from the Hudson to Batavia?
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