How the Dutch Created The Netherlands

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Another saying is;if a video is about the netherlands, 90% of the viewers are dutch

We flooded our own land to our own advantage during the 80 year war against the Spanish. Their troops couldn't enter when certain lands were flooded to half a meter, as horses would then refuse to continue. After their retreat we just pumped it all out again.

There are 3 things that can change the tides. The Moon, the Wind and the Dutch 😂👍🇳🇱

We donated the water to England. They now sell it as beer.

The life of a Dutchmen: - dealing with weather - dealing with the sea -dealing with people calling our country Holland instead of The Netherlands

Me who’s Dutch and knows damn well how it happened: Interesting

Zeeland: *exists * ocean: “and I took that personally”

Shame our secret is out , we din't want to tell the rest of the world about our new project yet. most people call it the "united Kingdoms" we call it the first part of our new dijk

Saying we are winning the war against the sea is something a Dutchman would never say. Its an eternal struggle. your pronunciation is pretty good don't worry

It's fun to hear people talk about where you live

The 1953 flood mostly hit the Zeeland province. But if not for one captain who ran his boat into a breach in a dijk near Niewerkerk aan de IJssel large parts of the most densely populated parts of the country would have flooded and many more thousands of people would have died...

Very interesting topic, great visuals. I knew Dutch re-claimed lands, didn't know to what extent. I watched twice.

Small correction. We Dutch didn't win the war with the water. We found a a way to cooperate with the water . It's not about fighting it, but knowing how to controle & guide it. You can't fight nature.

Me as a dutch person seeing dutch in a title: So anyway, i started watching

0:47 "the dutch doesn't even have a single mountain" The Dutch people: that hurts...

The "Watersnoodramp" a giant flooding of mainly the province Zeeland, hit my mothers side of the family particularly. In the death certificates of my great grandparents it said: "Passed away february first, found on the tenth of march". This means that they got flushed out of their homes and were only found weeks after the flood. Through the years the trauma got less and less. Dutch kids are educated about the relationship the country has with the water, but I think it's really important to remember how dangerous water is.

And it's not just the sea our engineers have to contend with; people tend to forget that the Netherlands are essentially an estuary for two main rivers flowing through Europe: Maas and Rijn. Heavy rain or snow in Germany and France / Belgium means a lot of water making its way to the North Sea through the Netherlands. There is a third, less well known Delta works project: river water management.

How the Netherlands Helped America Gain Independence - https://youtu.be/4aXi3lOmICI

I’m going to go ahead and apologize for mispronunciations.