Many civilians sought refuge by taking to the roads of France: some 2 million refugees from Belgium and Holland were joined by between 8 and 10 million French civilians, representing a quarter of the French population, all heading south and west.

The Dutch, having by this time joined Great Britain, made a serious addition to the naval power opposed to France, though Holland was compelled by the necessity for maintaining an army in Flanders to play a very subordinate part at sea.

The Earl of Holland who, it was said, " had better faculty at public address than he had with a sword ," joined the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Peterborough in addressing the principal residents and townsfolk of St Neots.

It was stated at the time that in 1643 Earl of Holland had joined Parliament and in the same year had changed sides and joined the Royalists.

So former Mike Oldfield and Fish keyboardist Mickey Simmonds joined Latimer, Bass and Burgess for the 1992 " comeback " world tour from which in 1993 a double live CD, recorded in Holland, Never Let Go, was released.

Of the German tribes that spread through Europe, the theorists identified that: the Burgundians, Franks, and Western Goths joined with the Gauls to make France ; the Lombards moved south and joined with the Italians ; The Jutes made Denmark ; The Angles made England ; The Flemings made Belgium ; other tribes made Holland.

Attracted by the outcry, sailors from Holland, Zeeland and others from ships in the port of Lisbon, joined the Dominicans and formed a mob with local men to pursue the conversos.

The Parliamentary navy mutinied in favour of the King and sailed for Holland, providing the Royalists with a major fleet for the first time since the start of the civil conflict ; Rupert joined the fleet under the command of the Duke of York, who assumed the rank of High Admiral.

In 1227, Otto was joined by his former enemy, count Floris IV, Count of Holland, to suppress a rebellion by the people of Drenthe, led by Rudolf of Coevorden.

When the Second English Civil War broke out they joined Royalist combatant Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland in Surrey, in July 1648.

He then joined the Russian Orthodox Church in Holland but left shortly thereafter, as its leadership turned out to be sympathetic to National Socialism.

The original trio of Galley, Hughes, and Holland reformed again in 1991, joined by Asia's and Yes's keyboard player, Geoff Downes, for a small tour.

Deeply convinced that the maintenance of a cordial understanding with France was the most essential condition of peace and of a liberal policy in Europe, he reluctantly concurred in the measures proposed by Lord Palmerston for the expulsion of the Mohammed Ali of Egypt from Syria ; he strenuously advocated, with Lord Holland, a more conciliatory policy towards France ; and he was only restrained from sending in his resignation by the dislike he felt to break up a cabinet he had so recently joined.

Later in 1218, a German army led by Oliver of Cologne, and a mixed army of Dutch, Flemish and Frisian soldiers led by William I, Count of Holland joined the crusade.

That same year he joined Jools Holland's band and is credited on Holland's album, Jools Holland and His Millionaires.

Braxton joined pianist Chick Corea's existing trio with Dave Holland ( double bass ) and Barry Altschul ( drums ) to form the short-lived avant garde quartet Circle, around 1970.

He joined the Separatist movement and travelled from England to Holland to avoid religious persecution under James I.

Some of the most significant musicians to emerge during this period include John McLaughlin and Dave Holland ( both of whom joined Miles Davis's group ), pianists Keith Tippett and John Taylor, saxophonists Evan Parker, Mike Osborne, John Surman and Alan Skidmore, and the Canadian-born trumpeter Kenny Wheeler who had settled in Britain.

In 1620 he joined the volunteer regiment for the relief of the German Palatinate and served in Holland.

Holland subsequently left the Observer and joined the Irish Times as the Northern Ireland correspondent.

This group came directly out of the DeJohnette ’ s time with Getz, as Holland joined him in this group along with guitarist John Abercrombie, both of whom would become associated with DeJohnette throughout his career.

After leaving Davis's group, Holland briefly joined the avant-garde jazz group Circle with Chick Corea, Barry Altschul and Anthony Braxton.

* 1840 – John Philip Holland, Irish inventor ( d. 1914 )

However, due to funding disputes within the Irish Republican Brotherhood and disagreement over payments from the IRB to Holland, the IRB stole Fenian Ram and the Holland III prototype in November 1883.

John Philip Holland () ( 29 February 184012 August 1914 ) was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U. S. Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, the Holland 1.

He was one of four brothers who may have been born in Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland to an Irish speaking mother, Máire Ní Scannláin, and John Holland, and learned English properly only when he attended the local English-speaking National School system and, from 1858, in the Christian Brothers in Ennistymon.

His principal writings are Doblado's Letters from Spain ( 1822 ) ( under the pseudonym of " Don Leucado Doblado ", and written in part at Holland House in London ), Evidence against Catholicism ( 1825 ), Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion ( 2 vols., 1834 ) and Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy ( 1835 ).

He became Colonel of the 7th Irish horse and served in Holland.

Fr Jeremiah Flynn, an Irish Cistercian monk, was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of New Holland and set out from Britain for the colony uninvited.

John Vincent Holland VC ( 19 July 1889 – 27 February 1975 ), was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

His work is represented in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland and in many other public and private collections worldwide.

In Holland in 1674 the government retained two regiments of English troops, two of Scots and one Irish.

In U2's live DVD, U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, during the song " New Year's Day ", Bono wraps himself in an Irish flag and says " Close your eyes and imagine it's Jason McAteer " as McAteer had just scored a decisive goal for the Irish National Football Team ( against Holland, 1 September 2001 ).

In the latter competition, given the injury to Niall Quinn, Cascarino was expected to lead the Irish attack, but suffered an injury in the approach to the games and was only able to manage a late cameo performance in the defeat against Holland.

McCann was the partner of Mary Holland, the late journalist for The Observer, and The Irish Times.

Cover versions of the song have been performed and recorded by Katie Noonan ( Flametree Festival Byron Bay 08 ), The Irish Rovers, Joan Baez, Priscilla Herdman, Liam Clancy, Martin Curtis, The Dubliners, Ronnie Drew, Danny Doyle, Slim Dusty, The Fenians, Mike Harding, Jolie Holland, Seamus Kennedy, The Langer's Ball, Johnny Logan and Friends, John Allan Cameron, Houghmagandie, John McDermott, Midnight Oil, Christy Moore, The Pogues, The Skids, June Tabor, John Williamson, The Bushwackers and the bluegrass band, The Kruger Brothers, Redgum, John Schumann, Tickawinda ( on the album " Rosemary Lane "), Orthodox Celts, The Houghton Weavers, Pat Chessell and Bread and Roses.

Norwegian resistance was led by Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Trondheim, who invited the old king Christian II back from his exile in Holland.

He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.

* 1848 First settlers in the county are Samuel Eli Holland, Logan Vandeveer, Peter Kerr, William Harrison Magill, Noah Smithwick, Captain Jesse B. Burnham, R. H. Hall, Adam Rankin " Stovepipe " Johnson and Captain Christian Dorbandt.

* Holland Christian Schools, a private Christian school system located in Holland, Michigan

Joyce attended the Francis Holland School in Central London, and the Christian Science School, Clearview, in South Norwood, and then she was " finished " in Paris where she attended Mlle.

A grassroots phenomenon organized by Dan Seaborn in Holland, Michigan spread nationwide in the 1990s among Christian youth groups studying it or wearing bracelets bearing the initials.

Later in the year 1948 on the terrace of café Notre Dame in Paris the Experimentele Groep in Holland links up with Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret from Belgium and Asger Jorn from Denmark to form CoBrA.

In the late ' 80s Metheny began collaborating more with established jazz figures such as Ornette Coleman, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, Charlie Haden, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Christian McBride, David Sanchez and Roy Haynes.

Finally among the founding band was Henry Scott Holland, then senior fellow at Christ Church and one of the leading figures in the development of the Christian social teaching of the time.

* Holland Christian Schools

The sermon for the success of the arms of Portugal against Holland was considered by the Abbé Raynal to be " perhaps the most extraordinary discourse ever heard from a Christian pulpit.

Holland attended St. Macreehy ’ s National School and probably spent a number of years in the Christian Brothers School in Ennistymon.

Whether it be originally Christian or originally pagan, similar methods of healing have been reported persisting till modern times: in Westphalia, the healing of a wound by triple signing and triple cruciform sufflation, or by exsufflation accompanied by a rhyming charm ; and in Holland the alleviation of toothache by similar means.

* Christian Potenza — Officer Holland

It initially consisted of the City of Owen Sound, the Village of Chatsworth and the Townships of Collingwood, Euphrasia, Holland, Osprey, St. Vincent and Sydenham in the County of Grey ; and Christian Islands Indian Reserve No. 30 and the Townships of Flos, Nottawasaga, Sunnidale and Tiny ( excepting the Town of Penetanguishene ) in the County of Simcoe.

* John Philip Holland, inventor of the motor powered submarine, who had been a Christian Brother as a young man

In 1942, after the German invasion of the Low Countries and as the Nazi grip on Holland ’ s Jewish community tightened, his parents decided to give their child to acquaintances in the Dutch resistance who placed him with the Van Tilborghs, an orthodox Christian farming family that lived in the village of Sprang Capelle in the region of Noord-Brabant near the Belgian border.

2005 saw the tagline of " Today's Best Christian Music " replaced by " Positive Hits " as well as the move of the business office and studio from Holland to Zeeland.

50th Golden Celebration, presented Diana Krall, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck w / Jim Hall, Gerald Wilson, Ernestine Anderson, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Kenny Burrell Quartet, Otis Taylor Band w / Cassie Taylor, Rashied Ali Quintet, Issac Delgado, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Los Lobos, James Moody, Vinnie Esparza, Sean Jones, Christian Scott, Cyrus Chestnut, and Terence Blanchard Quintet with Kendrick Scott