The islands were harboring pirates who interfered with Dutch shipping ... Republic quickly was subsumed into the wider First Anglo-Dutch war. Although the Dutch and British concluded their ...

HE IS DUTCH AND LIVED IN HOLLAND ALL THROUGH THE WAR AND THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. He had many vivid experiences and they are things that we should not forget because this war was a war for him too ...

Built in 1656 and owned by the Admiralty of Rotterdam, the ship was involved in all major battles in the second Anglo-Dutch war (1665-1667). The wreck, which lies on the seabed 32 metres under the ...

The film opens with an impressive naval battle, in which the Dutch repel an English invasion at the tail end of the first Anglo-Dutch War ... knows that this is no “Pirates Of The Caribbean ...