The spectacle
from Viewpoints – Placecloud (English) Hosted by Babak Fakhamzadeh
The Hague, The Netherlands. The German John Maurice de Nassau-Siegen enlisted in the Dutch army at the tender age of 16. Though from a respectable family with royal connections, his father had spent most of his resources supporting the Dutch independence war against Spain, which meant that for John, his father’s 13th child, there was little left to go around.
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