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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 ).

Low and c
( c ) Ligeantia localis, by operation of law, when a friendly alien enters the country, because so long as they are in the country they are within the Sovereign's protection, therefore they owe the Sovereign a local obedience or allegiance ( R v Cowle ( 1759 ) 2 Burr 834 ; Low v Routledge ( 1865 ) 1 Ch App 42 ; Re Johnson, Roberts v Attorney-General 1 Ch 821 ; Tingley v Muller 2 Ch 144 ; Rodriguez v Speyer AC 59 ; Johnstone v Pedlar 2 AC 262 ; R v Tucker ( 1694 ) Show Parl Cas 186 ; R v Keyn ( 1876 ) 2 Ex D 63 ; Re Stepney Election Petn, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 );
Mecklenburg however is within the historical Low German language area, and the " c " appeared in its name during the period of transition to Standard, i. e. High German usage ( Low German authors wrote the name Meklenborg or Męklenborg, depicting proper Low German pronunciation, which itself was a syncope of Middle Low German Mekelenborg ).
The introduction of the " c " is explained as follows: Either, the " c " signals the stretched pronunciation of the preceding " e " ( Dehnungs-c ), or it signals the pronunciation of the subsequent " k " as an occlusive to prevent it from falsely being rendered to a fricative following a Low German trend.
* c. 1469 BC: In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan ( Low Chronology ).
* Lesger, Clé, The rise of the Amsterdam market and information exchange: merchants, commercial expansion and change in the spatial economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550-1630, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006, ISBN 0-7546-5220-3, ISBN 978-0-7546-5220-5
Siger of Brabant ( Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri or Sygerius de Brabantia ; c. 1240 – 1280s ) was a 13th century philosopher from the southern Low Countries who was an important proponent of Averroism.
In Middle Low German, it was called necker and in Middle Dutch nicker ( c. f.
First use was as the title of the rulers of Austrasia ( c. 750 ), one of the Merovingian ( Frankish ) realms resulting from the complex successions in the house of Clovis, roughly comprising Germany, Switzerland and the Low Countries.
Cognates include Lithuanian " skimming ( of cream )" and Middle Low German " dirt ", Old English " mask, helm, spectre " ( from a meaning " covered, concealed ", c. f.
Burum ( Low Saxon: Boerum ) is a town in Kollumerland c. a., Friesland in the Netherlands.
Geertgen tot Sint Jans ( c. 1465 – c. 1495 ), also known as Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz, Gheertgen, Geerrit, Gheerrit, or any other diminutive form of Gerald, was an Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire.
c. Low impact delivery – the policy centers on food and natural resources
* Low German: Ri ( c ) kert
The harp is of a small Low Headed design with brass pins for 29 strings, the longest being c. 62 cm.
Great Urswick is situated along the north and west sides of Urswick Tarn, a modest body of water ( c. 1100 feet by 600 ), although the largest such natural body in Low Furness.

Low and .
Low temperature thermometry.
The latest Low is a puzzler.
But there is a difference between the present volume and the early Low.
But there was terror in the thirties when the Nazis were on the loose and in those days Low struck like lightning.
that was a nightmarish situation and Low was in his element.
we are stronger and more self-confident -- and Low cannot so easily put us to rights.
It might be that Low has seen too many stupidities and that they do not outrage him now.
Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.
Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.
Low inflation was maintained around 2. 6 % annually.
* In November 2000, nuclear spin temperatures below 100 pK were reported for an experiment at the Helsinki University of Technology's Low Temperature Lab.
* In Astrophysics, auto-correlation is used to study and characterize the spatial distribution of galaxies in the Universe and in multi-wavelength observations of Low Mass X-ray Binaries.
* Night Waltz II ( The Sun Sits Low ) — Mr. Lindquist, Mrs. Nordstrom, Mrs. Anderssen, Mr. Erlanson and Mrs. Segstrom
* Low molecular weight gases ( Hydrogen & helium ) may be difficult to remove from the analysis chamber, and may be adsorbed and emitted from the specimen, even though not present in the original specimen.
* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

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