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    was an early critic of the Dutch colonial system as implemented under the VOC. His ideas about reforms in the Dutch East Indies were to a large extent...
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    position of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in both the intercontinental route and in intra-Asian trades. The VOC secured its position in Asia by defeating...
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    lead and silver deposits in 1890. Geelvink Channel was named after a ship, but the ship was named after Joan Geelvinck Vansittart Bay on the coast of Western...
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    and approximately 30,000 were left homeless. After crossing the Rhine at Wesel and Rees, Canadian, British and Polish forces entered the Netherlands from...
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    of 's-Hertogenbosch. When Dutch troops surprised the Spanish fortress of Wesel, which acted as the principal Spanish supply base, this forced the invaders...
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  • 22 The Spanish army under Spinola refused to give up the key fortress of Wesel. Hayden p.22 Duro, Cesáreo Fernández (2006). El gran duque de Osuna y su...
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    almost completely destroyed. May 13 – The Eendracht, a VOC ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off...
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