id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4874 Motley, John Lothrop History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1600-02 .txt text/plain 12929 467 62 by the Archduke--Attack on Rheinberg by Prince Maurice--Siege and war at Ostend--Account of the belligerents--Details of the siege-was a work called the Spanish half-moon, situate on the new harbour middle of July in the place, sent thither by order of the States-General. thousand English troops ordered by the States-General to march to the army of twelve thousand men, a place beyond the frontier, and five days' garrison went out with the honours of war, and thus the place, whose For now the siege of Ostend became the war, and was likely to continue to be the war for a long time to come; all other military operations In the town Sir Francis Vere commanded. Of the seven or eight thousand soldiers in the town when the siege began, archduke's works, and would often swallow sausages, men, and cannon far probable that the archduke had not eight thousand effective men left in ./cache/4874.txt ./txt/4874.txt