The Watery ally: military inundations in Dutch history
Channel: Jan Oosthoek
Date: 2017-06-28

For centuries, the Dutch have fought against their arch-enemy: water. But, during the Dutch War of Independence in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch found an ally in their arch enemy. Their struggle against Spain seemed almost hopeless because the rebels were facing the best trained, supplied and funded European army of that era. As the underdog, they turned to water and used it as a weapon against the Spanish by planning and carrying out a number military inundations, intentionally flooding enormous swaths of land to stop or even defeat the enemy.

This short video introduced how military inundations of the Dutch landscape had profound long term political, social and environmental consequences for the province and the region.