This office was then formalized within a constitutional framework by the 1788 Act of Guarantee.
When the wife of a holder of this position was arrested by Patriot faction militia, English ambassador James Harris helped organize a Prussian invasion to free her. This office was then formalized within a constitutional framework by the 1788 Act of Guarantee. Reforms to pike and shot tactics made by a holder of this office directly inspired those made by Gustavus Adolphus. For 22 years, no holder of this office was appointed until a year in which a pair of brothers were lynched following a (*) French-English joint invasion - that year was called the "Disaster Year." This title's first holder served in Margaret of Parma's court, was assassinated by Balthasar Gerard, and started the Eighty Years' War against Spain. For 10 points, William of Orange was the first national-level holder of what title given to the leader of the United Provinces of the Netherlands?
When the wife of a holder of this position was arrested by Patriot faction militia, English ambassador James Harris helped organize a Prussian invasion to free her.
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