Book Description

Excerpt from The Story of William the Silent and the Netherland War, 1555-1584This book is designed particularly for young persons who have not time or Opportunity to read the story in full, in the extensive works of our standard authors. The boys and girls of the American republic should know by what struggle religious liberty has been won, in other countries and other times. It is good to behold moral hero ism anywhere; and we shall rarely find it more sublimely displayed than in the scenes of the Neth erland war. It might be added that, to not a few of our citizens, this is the history of their own fatherland.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.