id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4839 Motley, John Lothrop History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585b .txt text/plain 17775 770 65 Aldegonde, the Burgomaster--Anarchy in Antwerp--Character of Sainte Antwerpers--Progress of the Bridge--Impoverished Condition of Parma Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, was a general and a of Orange was better to Parma than forty thousand men. defiance to the land-forces, even of so great a commander as Parma. and a peaked and meagre beard; so appeared Sainte Aldegonde in the fortyseventh year of his age, when he came to command in Antwerp. left bank of the Scheldt, nearly opposite Antwerp, while Mansfield was the river from Zeeland would be cut off; and as the country on the landside; abut Antwerp, had been now reduced, the city would be effectually preserve Antwerp--the bridge of Parma was slowly advancing. Meantime both Antwerp and Parma becoming a more formidable enemy to Parma's great enterprise than the "The enterprise at Antwerp," he wrote to Philip on the day the bridge was ./cache/4839.txt ./txt/4839.txt