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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Army correspondence. (search)
A young man's motto.
Count Maurice, of Nassau, second son of william the Silent, Prince of Orange, found himself at seventeen years of age fatherless and poor, with a mother and ten younger brothers and sisters looking to him as the only one fitted to take the place of him who was gone.
His father had fallen by the dagger of the assassin, his eldest brother was a prisoner in Spain, and the family fortunes were at the lowest h. The Prince of Orange had devoted everything to his country, a his wealth.
After his xth, as the his cairn tells us, "carpets, tap tries. LI n, may even his silver spoons, and the clothes of his wardrobe, were disposed of at public suction for the benefit of his creditors.
It was a hard time for young Maurice, the more respectfully as the Netherlands Republic, then in the several siress of its struggle with the Philip, was looking to him as his father mate successor in its councils and at the head of its armies.
But his brave young heart did not fa