ralia, 164
Austrian Netherlands, insurrection in, 338
Austrian Succession War, 305, 306-315
Austruweel, 42
Axel, 311
Ayscue, Vice-Admiral, 214, 216 f., 240
Aysma, agent of Leicester, 89
Backhuizen, Ludolf, 200
Baden, 8, 297
Bahia, 167, 169 f., 173, 175
Bakhuysen, artist, 432
Balance of power in Europe, 266, 283 f., 294, 303
Baltic trade, 6, 25, 98, 120, 180, 182, 216, 229, 275,
301, 329
Banckers, Vice-Admiral, 252
Banda islands, 124 f., 160, 162 f.
Baner, 182
Bank of the Netherlands, 379
Banking houses, 320
Bantam, 124, 161, 275
Barendtsz, William, 99
Barlaeus, Caspar, 188, 197
Barlaymont, Baron de, 29, 31, 37 f., 44
Barra, the, 171 f.
Barrier treaties, 293, 296 f., 318
Bart, Jean, 264
Barthels, 387, 391
Basel, 8, 368
Batavia, Java, 161, 164 f., 275, 364
Batavian legion, 341 f.
Batavian Republic, the, 344-356
Bavaria, 283, 288, 307 f., 331
Beachy Head, 278
Beauharnais, Eugene, 398
Beerenbronck, Ruys de, 428
"Beggars of the Sea," 50 f., 56, 58 ff., 82
Belgian Limburg, 400
Belgian Netherlands, 272, 331, 336
Belgian Revolution, 387, 389-404
Belgium, 310, 314, 338, 340, 369, 371 ff., 389, etc.;
union of, with Holland, 376-388
Bender Abbas, 275
Bengal, 328
Bentinck, Count William, 313, 316, 319
Bentinck, William, Earl of Portland, 263, 269, 272, 284
Berbice, 276, 320, 328, 347, 376
Berbice river, 177
Berchem, Nicolas, 200
Beresina, the, 364
Bergen, 237 f., 353
Bergen-op-Zoom, 140, 312
Berghen, Marquis of, 31, 36, 38
Berkeley, Vice-Admiral, 240
Berlin, 308, 321, 341, 371, 406;
Decree of (1806), 358
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, 141
Berwick, 291
Bethune, 13, 294
Beukelsz, William, of Biervliet, 6, 24
Beverweert, 233 f., 244
Biberibi river, 171
Bicker, Andries, 207 f., 226
Bicker, Cornelis, 207 f., 226
Bicker, Wendela, 225, 247
Bilderdijk, 358, 407
Bilders, artist, 432
Binnenhof, the (at the Hague), 107, 134 f., 210, 333,
336, 348
Bishoprics, creation of, 31 f.
Bismarck, 417
Blaeu, Willem Jansz, 201
Blake, naval commander, 215-219
Bleiswijk, council-pensionary, 332, 337
Blenheim, 288
Blok, Dr P.J., 431
Blood, Council of, 43, 47, 49
Blood-placards, 23, 38 f.
"Blossoming Eglantine," 191, 201
Bluecher, 371
Boer War, 426
Boers, revolt of the, 420
Bogerman of Leeuwarden, Johannes, 136 f., 188
Bohemia, 126, 307, 361
Bois-le-Duc,
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