Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

* The Capture of Brielle, marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years ' War.

Another famous abjuration was brought about by the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe of July 26, 1581, the formal Declaration of Independence of the Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.

In the remainder of the war in the Low Countries he held high commands, and was present at the Battle of Fleurus.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

A combination of deception and brilliant administration – designed to conceal his true destination from friend and foe alike – enabled Marlborough to march unhindered from the Low Countries to the River Danube in five weeks.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

Marlborough could not attack Dillingen because of a lack of siege guns – he was unable to bring any from the Low Countries, and Baden had failed to supply any despite assurances to the contrary.

Therefore, in the interest of coalition harmony, Marlborough prepared to campaign in the Low Countries.

Map of the Low Countries during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Barge and canal systems were nonetheless of great, perhaps even primary, economic importance until after World War I in Europe, particularly in the more developed nations of the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland, and especially Great Britain which more or less made the system characteristically its own.

Again an Expeditionary Force was sent to France, only to be hastily evacuated as the German forces swept through the Low Countries and across France in 1940.

The infantry of the Low Countries, who were at this time almost the best in existence, drove back the French.

Two paintings ( both dated 1565 ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling — Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf.

Eugene fought primarily in northern Italy in the early years of the war, then later in the Low Countries.

As the popular response to Luther gathered momentum, the social disorders, which Erasmus dreaded and Luther disassociated himself from, began to appear, including the German Peasants ' War, the Anabaptist disturbances in Germany and in the Low Countries, iconoclasm and the radicalization of peasants across Europe.

Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence.

In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded previous French governments for centuries.

The vast majority of ethnic Franks, divided between Salians and Ripuarians, were confined respectively to the Low Countries, the northeastern tip of modern France and the Rhine river banks all the way down to near the Main and Hesse areas.

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power and Representation ( 2006 ).

* boost phase: 3 to 5 minutes ( shorter for a solid rocket than for a liquid-propellant rocket ); altitude at the end of this phase is typically 150 to 400 km depending on the trajectory chosen, typical burnout speed is 7 km / s, up to the speed of Low Earth Orbit.

“ Low water and occasional drying of the wetland bottom during droughts ( dry marsh phase ) stimulate plant recruitment from a diverse seed bank and increase productivity by mobilizing nutrients.

Image: Bode Low Pass Phase Plot. PNG | Figure 3: Bode phase plot for zero and low-pass pole ; curves labeled " Bode " are the straight-line Bode plots

It's clear, given these prerequisites, that contact pressure and developed temperature is highly dependent on the lumps geometry. Flow of material exhibits an increase in energy density, because initial phase transformation and displacement of material demand acceleration of material and high pressure. Low pressure is not compatible with plastic flow, only after deceleration may the flowing material be exposed to low pressure and quickly cooled.

A second phase of German settlement came during the early 13th century consisting of settlers primarily from the Rhineland, Southern Low Countries, and the Moselle region, with others from Thuringia, Bavaria, and even from France.

Low rate initial production ( LRIP ) is a term commonly used in military weapon projects / programs to designate the phase of initial, small-quantity production of a weapons system.

The first phase of this conflict would last until 1489, keeping Maximilian occupied in the Low Countries.

However the fourth phase also included Low German and Dutch.

Also during the 1970s, parallel developments in the study of phase transitions in condensed matter physics led Leo Kadanoff, Michael Fisher and Kenneth Wilson ( extending work of Ernst Stueckelberg, Andre Peterman, Murray Gell-Mann, and Francis Low ) to a set of ideas and methods known as the renormalization group.

Low performance teams have trajectories in phase space that approach the limiting dynamics of point attractors.

Many of the Class of ' 68 walked out of their graduation and held a countercommencement on Low Plaza with a picnic following at Morningside Park, the place where the protests began.

From early on, the Low Countries began to develop as a commercial and manufacturing center.

Following the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union, and the German conquest of France and the Low Countries, Romania found itself increasingly isolated ; meanwhile, pro-German and pro-Fascist elements began to grow.

From around 1800 to 1840 the Danish speaking population on the Angeln peninsula between Schleswig and Flensburg began to switch to Low German and in the same period many North Frisians also switched to Low German.

Welk thus acquired his trademark accent, typical of these Plattdeutsch or Low German-speaking immigrants who usually spoke the language at home long after they began to learn English at school.

In 1566, unlike the situation after the Eighty Years War and today, Protestantism in the Low Countries was mainly concentrated in the south ( roughly modern Belgium ), and much weaker in the north ( roughly now the Netherlands ), and iconoclasm in the north began later, after news of the events in Antwerp was received, and was more successfully resisted by local authorities in some towns, although still succeeding in most.

In the 15th century a new golden era began with the founding of the by now largest and oldest university in the Low Countries, the Catholic University of Leuven, in 1425.

Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina ( GSESC ) began operations in January 2007 following the merger of Girl Scout Council of the Pee Dee Area, Inc. and Girl Scouts of Carolina Low Country.

Capitalist economies began to develop in a nascent form, first in the northern Italian republics such as Genoa and Venice and in the cities of the Low Countries, later in France, Germany and England.

Nevertheless, despite his Allies ' initial lassitude the campaign in the Low Countries ( the war's principal theatre ) began well for Marlborough.

Joanna began her journey to Flanders in the Low Countries, which consisted of parts of the present day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany, on 22 August 1496.

Following the German occupation of the Low Countries and France in May-June 1940, the Imperial Japanese Army began to show dissatisfaction with Yonai's anti German policy.

Low began his career as a professional cartoonist with the Canterbury Times in 1910.

The foundation of the church of Ittre occurred around 640, and is principally known as the centre of the veneration of Our Lady of Ittre, which began in 1336, when a terrible plague was raging in the Low Countries.

The monthly Low End Theory Podcast began in 2009 and features mixes from a resident DJ and one guest DJ.

He planted his collection of tulip bulbs and found they were able to tolerate the harsher conditions of the Low Countries ; shortly thereafter the tulip began to grow in popularity.

The genre is dated to the band Low, who began experimentally to play very, very quietly and very, very slowly to traditional rock audiences.

In the early 880s, the remnants of the Great Heathen Army, defeated by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Ethandun in 878, began to settle in the Low Countries.

In 1635 he began his military career and he served under the prince of Orange in Holland, and fought with credit and received many wounds during engagements in the Low Countries and in Italy.

Girl Scouting in the United States of America began on March 12, 1912 when Juliette " Daisy " Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout troop meeting of 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia.

Travelling to the Low Countries, he was ordained as a priest at Mechelen in Flanders shortly afterwards, and began to lecture in theology at the Benedictine College there.

However opponents point all the achievements where over 10 years, at time of Strong Global economic growth, Low oil prices and relative to other countries the achievements where average, particularly since a massive Balance of Payments crises began in 2008.