Het Rampjaar 1672 | show | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Disaster year 1672 of the Dutch Republic: the people were senseless, the government distraught and the country hopeless. | dHNfcFF3RW13ZTNnMUU

Transcript

00:00It sounds like an exciting headline.

00:03The Netherlands has been attacked from three sides.

00:06But in 1672, this is the reality.

00:09How did it get so far?

00:12For that, we go back to the year 1648.

00:15The Eighty Years' War is over.

00:17The Republic is powerful and the Netherlands is prosperous.

00:21What else do you need an army for?

00:23It's peace. We don't need all those soldiers anymore.

00:26And it costs a lot of money.

00:29The Oranjes are put on a side track.

00:31Under the leadership of statesman Johan de Wit,

00:33the army will be subsidized.

00:35And trade will come first.

00:39World trade makes the Netherlands richer.

00:42Our neighbors see it with sad eyes.

00:45Because our wealth goes at the expense of theirs.

00:51The Netherlands and England fought one after the other sea wars.

00:55Like in 1667.

00:57When Michiel de Ruyter brought England to a great defeat

01:00with his trip to Chatham.

01:02In the years that followed, the Netherlands was safe.

01:05A treaty with England and Sweden protects the Republic

01:08against the great France.

01:10Because Louis XIV is looking for more power in Europe.

01:14France also negotiates in secret with the still-injured England.

01:18Where the loss in Chatham still feels like a deep wound.

01:21The Republic would be crushed.

01:23If the Netherlands is invaded in 1672, the disaster is imminent.

01:27How can the tide be turned?