Works cited for Military sources for the Dutch states / the Netherlands.

Amersfoort, Herman. „The Dutch Army in Transition From All-Volunteer Force to Cadre-Militia Army, 1795-1830.” Fighting for a Living. Edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher. Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Govaerts, Sander. “Fire-eaters: Professional Soldiers and the Introduction of Conscription in the Dutch-speaking Part of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, 1756-1815.” War in History 27, no. 1 (2020), pp. 4-32.

Haycock, R. G. “Prince Maurice (1567-1625) and the Dutch Contribution to the Art of War.” Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies: pp.22-34.

Het Staatsche Leger 1568-1795. 5 vols. Edited by Lieutenant-Colonel Ten Raa and General-Major F. de Bas. Breda, Netherlands: De Koninklijke Militaire Academie, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1918, and 1921.

Kurzgefaßte Geschichte der Errichtung sämmtlicher Churbraunschweig-Lüneburgischen Truppen. Telle, 1769.

Lesaffer, Randall (ed). The Twelve Years Truce (1609): Peace, Truce, War, and Law in the low countries at the turn of the 17th century. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Nijhoff, 2014.

Parker, Geoffrey. “The ‘Military Revolution,’ 1560-1660- a Myth?”. The Journal of Modern History 48, no. 2 (June 1976), pp. 195-214.

Riches, Daniel. “Early Modern Military Reform and the Connection Between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia.” Scandinavian Studies 77, no. 3 (Fall 2005), pp. 347-364.

Rothenberg, Gunther E. “Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and the ‘Military Revolution’ of the Seventeenth Century.” Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Edited by Peter Paret. Princeton University Press, 1986.

van Nimwegen, Olaf. “The Tactical Military Revolution and Dutch Army Operations during the Era of the Twelve Years Truce (1592-1618).” The Twelve Years Truce: Peace, Truce, War and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century. Brill, 2014.

van Nimwegen, Olaf. The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions (1588-1688). Rochester, NY: Boydell, 2010.

Veenendaal, L. Een disciplineringsrevolutie in het Staatse leger. Universiteit Leiden, 2021.

Vermeesch, Griet. “War and garrison towns in the Dutch Republic: the cases of Gorinchem and Doesburg (c. 1570-c. 1660).” Urban History 36, no. 1 (May 2009), pp. 3-23. Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Dutch Drill). Prints by Jacob de Gheyn II. 1607.


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