Herring Wars: The Habsburg Netherlands and the Struggle for Control of the North Sea, ca. 1520-1560
Recent studies of the concept of seapower call attention to the importance of knowing more about the era of transition from the Mediterranean naval strategy of the Italian city states to that of the seventeenth-century Atlantic powers. This study focuses on Habsburg Netherlands' precedents for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1993
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1993, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 249-272 |
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| Summary: | Recent studies of the concept of seapower call attention to the importance of knowing more about the era of transition from the Mediterranean naval strategy of the Italian city states to that of the seventeenth-century Atlantic powers. This study focuses on Habsburg Netherlands' precedents for the more developed naval strategy of the Dutch Republic. Under Mary of Hungary (Regent of the Netherlands, 1531-1555), the Habsburg government forced Holland and other seafaring provinces to work out a plan for defending Netherlands shipping, especially the herring fleet, from French and Scottish privateers. Strategies hitherto in use-sending out small war fleets, or buying "safe conduct" passes from prospective enemies-were ineffective. Instead, the provincial states now agreed to equip fleets large enough to "sweep the sea" of foes, with communication between fleet squadrons maintained by swift yachts: the vaunted Dutch naval supremacy of a later era was based on a strategy similar in design, but much grander in scale. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541950 |