id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4875 Motley, John Lothrop History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03 .txt text/plain 14135 520 62 Prince Maurice again on the march--Siege of Grave--State of the archduke's army--Formidable mutiny--State of Europe--Portuguese Netherlands--Surrender of Grave--Privateer work of Frederic Spinola fifteen thousand men, while the archduke, leaving Rivas in command before galley was no match for the Dutch galleot, either at close quarters or in with a small force of galleys which he kept under his command at Sluys. one, and the patient Hollanders soon proved to the enemy that the town De Moor, who had four little war-ships of Holland, and was supported besides by a famous vessel called the Black Galley of Zeeland, under each of Spinola's ships was manned by two hundred soldiers, while thirtysix musketeers from the Flushing garrison were the only men-at-arms in De ships and three thousand men--a numerical force of at least ten times The number of those killed in Spinola's fleet has been placed as high The company was to pay twenty-five thousand florins to the States-General ./cache/4875.txt ./txt/4875.txt