Super Soakers: When the Dutch Used Floods as Weapons
A new study has an important moral for would - be conquerors eyeing up the Netherlands : Bring yourswimmies , because you might be welcome with a alluvion . After examine historical mapping and other document from the southwest Netherlands , geographer Adriaan de Krakerfoundthat one - third of the floods that occurred in the region between the age 1500 and 2000 were intentionally and strategically make during times of war ....