User:DavidDijkgraaf

History student from Amsterdam in his early 20's trying to make the pages about Dutch military history better.

I also search the depths of the internet to find relevant paintings and illustrations.

I started editing Wikipedia when I noticed the vast disparity between the Wikipedia pages on the Wars of Louis XIV and the narratives in Dutch historiography. It seemed that wiki editors had favoured English and French sources over their Dutch counterparts. I can't blame them though. Dutch isn't exactly a widely known language, even under the historians of the period. Already in 2000 the historian Jamel Ostwald noted about the Anglo-American historiograhpy of the War of the Spanish Succession that:

"... a perusal of the large number of English-language works on Marlborough will turn up the surprising fact that none bother to consult the secondary literature written by Dutch historians, much less delve into Dutch primary sources.[...] It is difficult to understand how British historians could be content to scapegoat the Dutch without even bothering to look at Dutch accounts. Until they do so, their conclusions will be based on questionable foundations."

I have tried, and still do, to balance the various pages by adding Dutch sources. My edits wil most often cover Dutch military and diplomatic history in the early modern age, with a focus on the 1650-1750 period, but occasionally I will venture outside that territory.

Pages Created by User
Siege of Huy (1694)

Claude Frédéric t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly

Isaac Cronström

Philips van der Goes

Battle of Blanc-Nez and Gris-Nez

Siege of Naarden (1673)

Siege of Grave (1674)

Battle of Masulipatnam

Assault on Nijmegen (1702)

Field deputy (Dutch Republic)

Bombardment of Arras

Frederik Sirtema van Grovestins

Dutch Raid on North America

Battle of Stekene

Karel Willem Sparre

Battle of Tolhuis

Cornelis Beeckman

Bombardment of Givet

Jobst von Scholten

François van Aerssen

Willem Vleertman

Currently creating (feel free to help out)
Draft:Battle of Woerden

Draft:Dutch occupation of London

Draft:Action at Tongres

Planned
Wars of Louis XIV

Significantly expanded
Battle of Fleurus (1690)

Franco-Dutch War

François Nicolas Fagel

Battle of Seneffe

Battle of Landen

William III of England

Battle of Steenkerque

Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk

Action of 12 March 1672

Siege of Namur (1695)

Hans Willem van Aylva

Battle of Leuze

Battle of Ekeren

Battle of Elixheim

Frederick Christiaan van Reede, 2nd Earl of Athlone

Frederik Johan van Baer

Anthonie Heinsius

Important additions
Nine Years' War

War of the Spanish Succession

Battle of Malplaquet

Glorious Revolution

War of the Austrian Succession

Battle of Saint-Denis (1678)

Battle of Blenheim

Seven Years' War

Battle of the Boyne

Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms

Louis XIV

Barrier Treaty

Cornelis Tromp

War of the Polish Succession

Jacobite rising of 1715

Jacobite rising of 1719

Planned French invasion of Britain (1744)

Jacobite rising of 1745

Thirty Years' War

Sicco van Goslinga

Battle of Oudenaarde

Battle of Fontenoy

Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

Battle of Chiari

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Battle of Rocoux

Jacques-Louis Comte de Noyelles

Siege of Tournai (1709)

Daniël van Dopff

Battle of Waterloo

First Anglo-Dutch War

Battle of Dogger Bank (1781)

Dutch–Portuguese War

Anglo-Dutch Wars

Simon van Slingelandt