[The Rise of the Dutch Republic<br> Volume III.(of III) 1574-84 by John Lothrop Motley]@TWC D-Link book
The Rise of the Dutch Republic
Volume III.(of III) 1574-84

CHAPTER III
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Anxiety concerning this rebellion is supposed to have hastened the Grand Commander's death.

A violent fever seized him on the 1st, and terminated his existence on the 5th of March, in the fifty-first year of his life.
It is not necessary to review elaborately his career, the chief incidents of which have been sufficiently described.

Requesens was a man of high position by birth and office, but a thoroughly commonplace personage.

His talents either for war or for civil employments were not above mediocrity.

His friends disputed whether he were greater in the field or in the council, but it is certain that he was great in neither.


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