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The Netherlands had no natural resources.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“The two late comers of the game of imperialism, Protestant powers marginalized for that reason in Europe, and the Netherlands especially has nothing, natural resources,”
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