2-715-724 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'William the Silent, Prince of Orange', c1560-1580, (1890). William I, Prince of Orange (1533-1584), leader of the Dutch Revolt by the House of Nassau against the Spanish Habsburgs beginning the Eighty Years' War, was assassinated by Balthasar Gerard in Delft in 1584. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]