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William of Orange, militaire-identificatie NPS.42.NS.15125, was een postduif die zich in de Tweede Wereldoorlog verdienstelijk gemaakt heeft. Hij werd gefokt bij Sir William Proctor Smith uit Cheshire en getraind door de Army Pigeon Service of the Royal Signals. In september 1944 leverde William of Orange in een recordtijd cruciale informatie ...
William of Orange was a male war pigeon of British military intelligence service MI14. He was awarded the 21st Dickin Medal for delivering a message from the Arnhem Airborne Operation. This message saved more than 2000 soldiers at the time of the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. His official name in military record is NPS.42.NS.15125.
William III (of Orange) William III (of Orange) William and his wife Mary were crowned joint monarchs of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689. Their accession, known as the ‘Glorious Revolution ...
Key, c. 1570–1584. William I of Orange-Nassau (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584) was an important leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish in the Eighty Years' War. He was the first leader of the Netherlands. He held the title of Prince of Orange . William of Orange is better known as William the Silent (in Dutch: Willem de Zwijger ).
From rebel to “Father of the Fatherland”. William of Orange is an ambitious nobleman who develops into the leader of the Dutch Revolt and later on is revered as “Father of the Fatherland”. He is regarded as the founder of a new Dutch state. He himself, however, has never pursued such an independent state. Period. Tijd van ontdekkers en ...
William I (Willem Frederik; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was king of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840. William was the son of William V, Prince of Orange, the last stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, and Wilhelmina of Prussia. During the Flanders campaign, he commanded the Dutch troops ...
The Glorious Revolution [a] is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew. The two ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694.
