Things Seen in Holland
much resistance. The people, believing that they had been betrayed, broke into a rebellion, and murdered John de Witt and his brother Cornelis. Prince William, afterwards of England (William III. of Holland), thereupon was elected Stadhouder, when the French were defeated, with the aid of the Elector of Brandenburg and the Spanish troops, and the war was at last terminated by the peace of Nijmwegen in 1678. William married Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, afterwards King James II. of England. In 1689 he was elected King by Parliament, retaining at the same time the office of Stadhouder of the Netherlands. The rest of his reign belongs to English history, and it remains but to be said that the united fleets of England and Holland defeated the French off La Hogue, and that the peace of Rijswijk forced the French King to restore
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