William of Orange (Dutch), also called the Silent, made this speech of apology in 1581. If the teacher didn't explain, you'll need to read it up yourself, but when you google it, the speech is horrendously long! Here's a link to just "extracts" from the speech, about a page long:
And here's one part of a long article about William that may help, but you won't understand unless you do the reading yourself:
It was on the shoulder of the young prince of Orange that Charles V. leant when, in 1555, in the presence of a great assembly at Brussels, he abdicated, in favour of his son Philip, the sovereignty of the Netherlands. William was also selected to carry the insignia of the empire to Ferdinand, king of the Romans, when Charles resigned the imperial crown. He had, at the age of twenty-one, been placed by the emperor, before his abdication, at the head of an army of 20,000 men in the war with France, and he continued to fill that post under Philip in 1556, but without distinction. His services, as a diplomatist, were much more brilliant. He was one of the three plenipotentiaries who negotiated the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1559), and was largely responsible for bringing about a settlement so favourable to Spanish interests
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William of Orange (Dutch), also called the Silent, made this speech of apology in 1581. If the teacher didn't explain, you'll need to read it up yourself, but when you google it, the speech is horrendously long! Here's a link to just "extracts" from the speech, about a page long:
http://personal.ashland.edu/~jmoser1/apology.htm
And here's one part of a long article about William that may help, but you won't understand unless you do the reading yourself:
It was on the shoulder of the young prince of Orange that Charles V. leant when, in 1555, in the presence of a great assembly at Brussels, he abdicated, in favour of his son Philip, the sovereignty of the Netherlands. William was also selected to carry the insignia of the empire to Ferdinand, king of the Romans, when Charles resigned the imperial crown. He had, at the age of twenty-one, been placed by the emperor, before his abdication, at the head of an army of 20,000 men in the war with France, and he continued to fill that post under Philip in 1556, but without distinction. His services, as a diplomatist, were much more brilliant. He was one of the three plenipotentiaries who negotiated the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1559), and was largely responsible for bringing about a settlement so favourable to Spanish interests