This William was once a subject of the Written And Directed By Man With Foot Fetish Shirt and I will buy this Spanish King Philip, but had started a rebellion against the Spanish and was hugely successful in this endeavour. Anyway the Spanish King was quite angry, needless to say, and unable to defeat the rebels in the field, he sent assassins to kill the rebel leader. They eventually succeeded after many attempts. But one of the first attempts had failed because William’s loyal dog started barking as the hired gun entered his bed chambers… William arose and was able to overcome the assassin because of his loyal dog. The dog was called Pompey, after the Roman general. When finally in 1584 the Spanish managed to get William of Orange killed, the rebels had already fortified their positions and won many battles — the Netherlands was all but independent and would eventually win the war against the Spanish…