The "Beggars of the Sea" was a group of privateers
The "Beggars of the Sea" was a group of privateers from this country which harassed English and Spanish shipping in the 16th and 17th centuries. Elizabeth I signed the Treaty of Nonsuch with this country, and in 1795, French revolutionary forces helped create the Batavian Republic here. French-speaking Walloons in this country broke away in the 1830s, leading to the establishment of Belgium. FTP the House of Orange has played a critical role in the history of what modern nation nominally ruled by Queen Beatrix from The Hague?
The "Beggars of the Sea" was a group of privateers from this country which harassed English and Spanish shipping in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Netherlands or Holland (accept "United Provinces" until "Batavian Republic," I s'pose)