Although the punishment was not severe, Young Kuldre took it very seriously. As soon as he got home, he shut his doors to visitors, making the whole of Luxembourg extremely tense.
At this time, the Kuldre family held a lofty position in Luxembourg. After all, Luxembourg's current glory all stemmed from Old Kuldre's high-stakes gamble in the German Confederation years ago.
Leaving their homeland for Africa was painful for the people of Luxembourg, too. But seeing how many people the other states had sent, they could only send some "volunteers" as well.
The Dutch were unhappy, too—not least their king, William II.
In fact, when he heard old Pretorius say that the Boers were not Germans, he had been quite excited.
William II thought the Boers might be trying to return to their roots, which was much like the Greater Netherlands Ideology he championed.
William II was also proclaiming that the Dutch were not Germans. Although they were part of the German Confederation, that did not mean the Dutch had to be German.
And the Dutch themselves were no longer the indomitable little nation that had fought Spain in the Eighty Years' War (which had lasted a full eighty years) and stood up to France in the Franco-Dutch War.
After waging a series of arduous wars, the Dutch did not see the dawn of a new day. Instead, their entire elite class packed up and fled.
The Glorious Revolution in Britain brought William, the Dutch stadtholder, to the British throne.
Although many history books called William little more than a figurehead, the Bank of England, established with his support, had earned a prominent place in the history of capitalism. It was also one of the major reasons Britain was able to truly take off.
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