*FINAL EPISODE!*
The story of the Eighty Years’ War, the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Realm.
The Republic of the United States of the Seven Netherlands continues the war against their Lord, King Felipe IV of Spain. The end is in sight, but there are still cities to be besieged and battles to be waged before there is peace at long last.
— SOURCES AND INFO —
Website: https://defraggedhistory.com/
Sources: https://defraggedhistory.com/eighty-years-war/bibliography-eighty-years-war/
Images and stock footage from Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Pexels.com, Pixabay.com, and own work.
Reenactor footage was filmed at:
Slag om Grolle (2019)
Slag om Bourtange (2022)
Slag om Grolle (2022)
Siege of Monmouth (2023)
— SOCIALS —
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefraggedH
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/defraggedhistory/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eightyyearswar/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Defragged-History-100837279177062
— MUSIC —
All music is licensed through Epidemic Sound.
Music list: https://defraggedhistory.com/the-music-eighty-years-war/
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4W4C08AVd49yz5WEnz6xTm?si=_xL2ka_ZRZ2m_dj2Ta2JqQ
— CHAPTERS —
00:00:00 Title
00:00:07 01. The History So Far…
00:02:56 02. Plea of the Widow
00:04:26 03. Fredalia
00:06:33 04. Urgent Necessity
00:08:57 05. Grand Scheme
00:10:47 06. Mosselman
00:12:18 07. Return of the Great
00:13:56 08. Conspiracy of Nobles
00:16:50 09. Siege of Maastricht
00:20:59 10. When the Lützen Smoke Clears
00:22:46 11. The French Connection
00:25:41 12. Cardinal-Infante
00:27:36 13. Traité de Partage
00:29:28 14. Reversal of Fortune
00:31:48 15. Smithereens
00:35:28 16. The Brazilian
00:36:37 17. Tulip Mania
00:39:06 18. Son Altesse
00:41:09 19. The Baron’s Back
00:46:30 20. Kallo
00:51:06 21. Treachery of Maastricht
00:53:18 22. Cruise Control
00:56:12 23. Monster Ship
00:59:23 24. Free of Charge
01:02:37 25. Battle of the Downs
01:06:13 26. Hands Tied
01:08:52 27. Sacramental Scoundrel
01:12:21 28. Trading Places
01:14:37 29. Everybody Loves a Revolt
01:17:25 30. A Royal Wedding
01:19:19 31. Half-Hearted
01:21:02 32. Not Without My Allies
01:22:27 33. Civil War
01:25:31 34. Treasonous Treaty
01:27:28 35. Hungry Hungry Hippo
01:30:01 36. Miraculous Capture
01:31:40 37. Something Rotten in Denmark
01:34:00 38. Glorious Conquest
01:38:00 39. White Wale
01:41:46 40. Days are Numbered
01:44:18 41. Peace of Münster
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Thanks for the great job you guys did. I watched 1 – 19 Three times!
Great video and an awesome series, told in a unique way that i enjoyed to the fullest. I hope that the next series will be about the Anglo-Dutch wars
never disappoints👍👍
The Dutch anthem at the end… Beautiful. This is the best History Channel ever.
Thank you for this fantastic series
So, after fighting against his father's heirs for more than 50 years, Hendrik reconciled with his family by betraying the Spanish?
I swear, this war is written like a novel. 👌
This series inspired me to learn Dutch, one of the best if not the best history series out there in youtube
Thanks!
So what is next? How did willem respond to peace? How did he become king? How long did the southern states stay under spanish how did they got out from it. Great job but I feel there is so much more I'm invested in the netherlands now. Will there be an epilogue? Congratulations on a great series. Only channel I subscibe too!
Brravo, congratulations, and thank you!
Wonderful series, really enjoyed the ride and thrilled for the Brothers story!
Yes we should all join the dark siiiiiiike.
❤
Just wanted to congratulate you on finishing this series I have been following for a while now. The quality of the narration, research, and visual content was on point. You took great care in making sure all the historical figures were represented and explained what their motivations were. You gave a great explanation of all sides of the conflict while making sure there was no undeserved praise or defamation (I'm French-Spanish). I feel like the Dutch Revolution compared to the English Revolution and the French Revolution is underrated, yet it was the longest one in recorded history and had such profound repercussions on Western European society. I just find it interesting that you guys fought for 80 years to be a Republic and today you are a liberal parliamentary monarchy.
8 out of 8 for pronoucing Oxenstierna juuust right
Thank you for this awesome journey through so many great episodes. Definitely one of the best historical series on YT. 🙏🙏👍👍Good luck with your future plans on this channel. I will be watching their development with great attention.😁
Fantastic series, watched all of them with great interest, and once caught up, waited with great agony until the next episodes. Absolutely great job, so detailed, well researched (you gave me a lot of new interesting things I can further investigate now) and all of it brought in a fun and exciting way. Great resource to keep on getting back to to recheck things, thank you so much for your effort!
A documentary series that did more than just retain the complexity of its subject. It elevated the 80 years' worth of messy lines of lineage, trenches, and diplomatic and personal beefs to an art form!
Love your story.
Absolute documentary masterpieces … Brilliance !!!
Congratulations of finishing your magnum opus, this was incredible.
it was far out man great series
What a wonderful series! Many thanks.
It is over. It is done. Never did I think that I would watch a history series that lasts for dozens of hours. And yet you made me do so. Now I know how to pronounce numerous Dutch cities and provinces, Spanish officers and generals. I learned much more than I wanted even. Thank you, this was awesome.🎉
I use YouTube to watch people to react to movies I have seen and they haven't. However that's probably about 15% of my interest the rest is learning more history. Many different eras, different areas and timelines from antiquity to present day. This is the very best production of everything I have seen. I have been fascinated with the 30yrs war, the Balkans and the east west struggle meeting in the Persians and others and the Romans- Byzantines for example and before and since. But this is the best and wittiest production. Thank you!
I love this series, but will there be a wrap up episode to go over the war results? Really I just want the series to go on forever
I know I might sound a bit nitpicky about this, but I think the ending was kinda sorta rushed. I wished that it was a bit like the ending of the Batavia series (absolutely amazing series BTW) where the fate of the others was explained. I wish we knew what happened to Willem II, Phillip IV, more consequences of the war, etc. But I'll admit, this complain is highly forgivable for the ABSOLUTELY AMAZING DETAILED AND WELL MADE REST OF THE SERIES. Good job Defragged! Let's salute for Willem the Silent, Maurice, Frederick Henry and the others for the good of the Dutch Republic. (also keep up the good work you are so underrated) ok byyyyyyeee
There are times when you sit or lie there in a languor, unable to bring yourself to do anything useful. Usually you either wait for the end of the said spell of apathy, or maybe just do a minimal hack job. For me though, in the last year it was no longer an issue, for whenever I feel like doing nothing, I tune in for this series, and after even 10 minutes of watching, I'm motivated enough to move mountains again, finishing all my projects in the record time. God knows why, but it works. Watched it entirely on 1x speed. And would probably do again. With ❤ from russia.
Wow, wow, wow 👍👍what a masterpiece you have made. Should be added to the Dutch Canon as mandatory history lecture. Thank you for teaching me.
You did truly marvelous work on this series – both as a filmmaker, presenter, and above all, as a historian! I thank you for your efforts and salute your talent!
This era is convoluted!
Great job!
I switched across to my primary account for … reasons ….. and I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the series.
Great work, words cannot describe how much I appreciate your hard work over these years, watching one of the best documentaries ever made! Glory to the Dutch lady of Defragged History channel!
I am not Dutch but i got very emotional with this series, rest in peace to all those brave warriors, full respect.
Simply brilliant, thank you
Superb content. Absolutely Loved all of your series, especially The Batavia ! So…what’s next ?😂😂😂
I think you should do one more episode to review and reflect on everything that happened. Some sort of conclusion episode that details the importance of this war. It doesn't need to be another 1 hr 47 min video, it could be less than 30 min if your workload is too big. We need an episode simply to process what the hell just happened. I certainly do, at least.
another epic. thankyou for completing this incredible project of history. Whats next?
Defragged History, I must say that all of this (your series here) has certainly been very something, over these many months here. The Eighty Years War was probably my most favorite subject in history ever, and before I came across your series, I read about this conflict elsewhere online (Wikipedia). But now you have brought this conflict, to my shock and aw, to a level of portrayal and detail that still amazes me to this day. Your series on the Eighty Years War here was what helped completed my knowledge of this conflict, a series that I will honestly say, was and is, one of the best history series there ever was in this world. And with this long spanding conflict here feeling complete (by me), it brought me to almost indescribable feelings of completeness and happiness, and maybe even sadness as well, unlike I have ever felt before. And so, I will say to you this
thank you
not only for the history you taught here, but also for the wonderful memories I had while watching this series, along the way, as well.
Congratulations on a great conclusion to a mammoth effort. I picked the series up around episode 16 and have been enthralled with your means of telling history.
Ow lord, I feel a bit guilty because I am sad that the war has ended, they could have keep it going a couple decades more
What an epic journey this has been, thank you so very much for the dedicated effort to see it all through. Two years ago, I was looking for some inspiration for 16th century politics and warfare for a semi-realistic fantasy graphic novel project but immediately got hooked on the real-life history of western Europe. The fantasy project never went anywhere, but I'm still here for this series. It seems most large developments in Europe has involved the Netherlands more or less directly! From early industrialization and the spice trade, via the many exploits of the Williams to the Schlieffen Plan(s) and onwards. To be a proper European conqueror it seems you need to invade the Netherlands, Russia or preferably both.
Thanks again!
:3
GREAT SERIES! I hope there are more. Will be contributing end of the month.