Eighty Years' War

The Eighty Years' War, also called Dutch Revolt, was a war between the Netherlands and Spain. The former Burgundian Netherlands wanted to be Protestant and separate from Spain and the Austrian Empire. The war lasted from 1568 to 1648 but was interrupted by a truce between 1609 and 1621. The Peace of Westphalia ended the war. The Netherlands achieved independence in the Eighty Years' War.

Eighty Years' War Media

• Synode van Dordrecht.jpg

  Stedelijk Museum Dordrecht

• Westfaelischer Friede in Muenster (Gerard Terborch 1648).jpg

  Swearing of the Peace of Münster by Gerard ter Borch

• Bartholomeus van der Helst, Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster.jpg

  The Celebration of the Peace of Münster (1648) by Bartholomeus van der Helst

• Philip II of Spain berating William the Silent Prince of Orange by Cornelis Kruseman.jpg

  Philip II, King of Spain, Reproaches William I, Prince of Orange, in Vlissingen upon his Departure from the Netherlands in 1559. By Cornelis Kruseman.

• Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate - Beleg van Alkmaar, 18 september 1573, Spaanse troepen bestormen de stad - 023931 - Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar (cropped).jpg

  Siege of Alkmaar, by Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate.

• El milagro de Empel.jpg

  El milagro de Empel, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau.

• Vroom Hendrick Cornelisz Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602.jpg

  Battle of the Narrow Seas, by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom.

• The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez.

• A cavalry battle, by Jan Martszen de Jonge.

• Jan Martszen de Jonge - A cavalry skirmish with two fallen soldiers.jpg

  A battle scene from the Eighty Years' War by Jan Martszen de Jonge.