A Quarter of the Netherlands Lives Below Sea Level
The Netherlands is so low-lying that 26 percent of its land area and most of its population sit below sea level. The Dutch joke that God…
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French Cavalry Once Captured a Fleet of Naval Ships Frozen in Ice
In January 1795, French hussars rode across a frozen strait in the Netherlands and accepted the surrender of 14 Dutch warships trapped in…
The Netherlands and a Tiny Island Group Were Technically at War for 335 Years
The Isles of Scilly — five small islands off Cornwall — and the Netherlands were technically at war from 1651 until 1986, a conflict…
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