SYPESTEYN, J.W. van & J.P. de BORDES. - De verdediging van Nederland in 1672 en 1673. Bijdragen tot de staats- en krijgsgeschiedenis van het vaderland. Voor een groot deel uit onuitgegeven stukken zamengesteld

's Gravenhage, Gebroeders J. & H. van Langenhuysen, 1850. 2 volumes in 1. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With large folding map, coloured in outline and 2 folding plans. XII,120; VIII,230,(1) pp. In Dutch history, the year 1672 is referred to as the Rampjaar (Disaster Year). In May 1672, following the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War and its peripheral conflict the Third Anglo-Dutch War, France, supported by Münster and Cologne, invaded and nearly overran the Dutch Republic. At the same time, it faced the threat of an English naval blockade in support of the French endeavor, though that attempt was abandoned following the Battle of Solebay. A Dutch saying coined that year describes the Dutch people as redeloos ("irrational"), its government as radeloos ("distraught"), and the country as reddeloos ("beyond salvation").

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