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Research corpus

What's actually in the archive

Coverage across every research file behind this project — from the Eighty Years' War through the Cold War, plus a separate, deliberately unrelated slice: the Nuremberg trial record, where this whole knowledge base actually started, as a learning sandbox before the Dutch military history became the point of it. Diamonds mark specific documented episodes; the gold diamond marks the one place on this timeline grounded in verified primary-source extraction (the Grebbeberg combat reports) rather than synthesized secondary material. Hover or tap any segment for what's actually written there.

59,000+ Words of research written Across seven institutional-history documents, 1568–1999.
7 Research documents The Eighty Years' War through the Cold War — each independently sourced and tiered.
528 Source citations Not a bibliography — every claim traced to a specific document or archive.
207 Primary-source documents ingested The raw corpus behind the self-built RAG/graph pipeline.
294 Relationships mapped Between 162 tracked people, units, and events in the knowledge graph.
8 Documents fully verified Mechanically-checked quotes plus adversarial two-gate review — the Nuremberg slice only.

The Inheritance

1568 – 1815 · the Dutch Republic's own military tradition

Army origins
Navy origins
Documented episode
Contested / disputed claim

The Twentieth Century

1900 – 2002 · four branch timelines + the civil–military cross-cutting angle

Army
Navy & Koopvaardij
Air Force
Civil–Military relations
Book outline
Army
Navy
Air Force
Civil–military
Documented episode
Primary source — the author's own 1994 service
Separate corpus

Nuremberg Trial Record, 1945–46

Not part of the Dutch story — a parallel slice, run through the same mechanically-checked-quotes-plus-adversarial-review pipeline as the Grebbeberg combat reports below, at a much larger scale (52 documents against 3).

52
primary documents
22
defendants tracked
Confidence tiers

How everything is marked

🟢 verified extraction (Nuremberg, plus the Grebbeberg combat reports — Rentjes, Elzas, Vos) · 🟡 synthesized scaffold (the rest of the 1568–1999 Dutch corpus) · 🟠 disputed / actively contested claim · a fourth tier for oral history — one entry, the author's own conscript service.

With those two exceptions (Nuremberg, and the Grebbeberg combat reports), everything else here is a synthesized reference scaffold — real sources, honestly tiered, not mechanically-verified primary extraction — per each research file's own evidentiary note. Hover any segment or diamond above for what it actually contains.