Early Modern Europe
To Save Leiden, They Flooded Their Own Farms
A Spanish army spent 1574 starving a Dutch city into surrender—except the city refused to surrender, and a miller's son figured out how to drown an empire.
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Download on the App StoreDutch Golden AgeEarly Modern EuropeNetherlandsMilitary HistorySiege WarfareSpanish EmpireEighty Years WarWilliam of OrangePieter van der Werff
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