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    Surinam, also known as Willoughbyland, was a short-lived early English colony in South America in what is now Suriname. It was founded in 1650 by Lord...
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    Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony...
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  • Surinam may refer to: Surinam (Dutch colony) (1667–1954), Dutch plantation colony in Guiana, South America Surinam (English colony) (1650–1667), English...
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    squadron of ships to retake the area. In 1667 Surinam (English colony) to the east was captured from the English by Abraham Crijnssen, and by then abandoned...
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  • (district), a former district within the nation Surinam (English colony), (1650-1667) Surinam (Dutch colony), (1667–1954) Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)...
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    European colony at Marshall's Creek along the Suriname River, spelled the name "Surinam"; this would long remain the standard spelling in English. The Dutch...
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    British Guiana Berbice Demerara Essequibo Counani Dutch Guiana Pre-1667 Pomeroon Surinam Suriname Free Counani Trinidad-Guayana Surinam (English colony)...
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    Nickerie (200 miles SE of Georgetown)(small) 1718 Dutch Surinam 1651 English, 1667 Dutch, 1799 English during French wars, 1814 restored to Dutch but England...
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    Guyana (category Countries and territories where English is an official language)
    united colonies of Demerara-Essequibo and separate colony of Berbice together became a single British colony known as British Guiana.[citation needed] Since...
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    French Guiana (category Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text)
    Retrieved 6 May 2020. "French Guyana 1:3 Suriname (Guayana Francesa 1:3 Surinam)". www.soccer-db.info. Retrieved 2 August 2021. "Tour cycliste de Guyane...
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    the British West Indies, giving an appearance of almost creating an English colony on Venezuelan territory. In 1926, a Venezuelan mining inspector found...
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  • The Invasion of Surinam was a Dutch attempt to capture the English held colony of Surinam in February 1667. The Dutch under the command of Abraham Crijnssen...
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    southeast. Although the colony of Surinam has always been officially known as such or as Suriname, in both Dutch and English, the colony was often unofficially...
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  • acquired Suriname from the English, and European settlement in any numbers dates from the 17th century, when it was a plantation colony utilizing slavery for...
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    Jewish colonists then moved to the neighbouring colony of Surinam, at the time still an English colony, where they joined the Jewish colonists at Jodensavanne...
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    Portuguese. The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 established the boundaries between the colony of Brazil and French Guiana, but these were not respected by the French...
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    western transposition of the two main islands of Novaya Zemlya. Surinam (English colony) Hacquebord, Louwrens (Sep 1995). "In Search of Het Behouden Huys:...
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  • The 1804 Invasion of Surinam was a campaign for control of the Dutch colony of Surinam between the Batavian Republic and the United Kingdom during the...
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  • Spring Gardens and send a collection of butterflies from the Dutch colony of Surinam to 2nd Marquess of Rockingham and a pastel by Francis Cotes. In 1770...
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  • fall of Surinam to the Dutch and its final abandonment by obstinate English planters, Byam travelled to Antigua, a more settled English colony. There he...
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    of Labourers from India to the Dutch Colony of Surinam, the Accession of the Dutch colonies of Curaçao and Surinam to the International Union for the Protection...
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    English overseas colonies started in 1556 with the plantations of Ireland after the Tudor conquest of Ireland. One such overseas joint stock colony was...
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    Oroonoko (category English novels)
    in Surinam. The narrator is a lady who has come to Surinam with her unnamed father, a man intended to be the new lieutenant-general of the colony. He...
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    abandoned some time before the arrival of English settlers in 1650 to found Surinam. They were sent by the English governor of Barbados, Lord Francis Willoughby...
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    was taken by the Dutch in 1667 and renamed Fort Zeelandia. Surinam, a small English colony, was established in 1650 by Major Anthony Rowse on behalf of...
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  • HMS Surinam was the 18-gun Batavian corvette or sloop Pilades that the British captured on 5 May 1804 when they captured Surinam from the Dutch. The Batavian...
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    1840 commission also included a survey of the colony's eastern boundary with the Dutch colony of Surinam, now the independent nation of Suriname. The 1899...
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    Netherlands Antilles (category Countries and territories where English is an official language)
    autonomous successor of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies. The Antilles were dissolved in 2010. The Dutch colony of Surinam, although relatively close...
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    part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state from 1792 until 1815...
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    The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies (Dutch: Kolonie Curaçao en onderhorigheden; Papiamento: Kolonia di Kòrsou i dependensianan) was a Dutch colony in...
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