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    In Dutch history, the year 1672 is referred to as the Rampjaar (pronounced [ˈrɑmpjaːr] ; Disaster Year). In May 1672, following the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch...
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    Graeff, he controlled the Dutch political system from around 1650 until the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) of 1672. This progressive cooperation between the two statesmen...
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    unprepared for the invasion by Louis XIV of France in 1672, the infamous Rampjaar. Their killing, which took place on 20 August 1672, was an act of aggression...
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    first bear raider, Isaac le Maire. In 1672 – known in Dutch history as the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) – the Dutch Republic was attacked by France, England and...
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    power. The year 1672 is known in the Netherlands as the "Disaster Year" (Rampjaar). England declared war on the Republic, (the Third Anglo-Dutch War), followed...
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    temporarily fell to the French invasion in 1672 (the Disaster Year, Dutch: Rampjaar). The French invasion was stopped just west of Utrecht at the Old Hollandic...
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    The Dutch had been engaged in the struggle to contain France since the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) of 1672, when the Dutch Republic had nearly been overrun...
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    University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-4721-1208-1. Panhuysen, Luc (2009). Rampjaar 1672: Hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte (in Dutch). Uitgeverij...
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    prohibitions, like the Act of Seclusion. But they were unsuccessful, and the Rampjaar ("Year of Disaster") of 1672 brought about the fall of the De Witt regime...
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    and Johannes Vermeer. In 1672, a severe economic downturn known as the Rampjaar struck the Dutch Republic, after French troops led by Louis XIV invaded...
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