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... Dutch could the full profits be reaped . And the Dutch , who had got in first , had no more intention of sharing this lucrative commerce with the English than with the Portuguese . As early as 1596 , Cornelius van Houtman with four ...
... Dutch could the full profits be reaped . And the Dutch , who had got in first , had no more intention of sharing this lucrative commerce with the English than with the Portuguese . As early as 1596 , Cornelius van Houtman with four ...
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... Dutch city on Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson , long known as New Amsterdam . With- out a shot being fired , Battery Point , Wall Street - along the landward defences - and the ' Dutch garden ' or Bowery , were taken . In due ...
... Dutch city on Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson , long known as New Amsterdam . With- out a shot being fired , Battery Point , Wall Street - along the landward defences - and the ' Dutch garden ' or Bowery , were taken . In due ...
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... Dutch East India Company to investigate the ' southland ' from Batavia in 1642 , twenty years after the Amboyna ' massacre ' , and at the height of Dutch colonial power . The Dutch had called the country , which they at first thought ...
... Dutch East India Company to investigate the ' southland ' from Batavia in 1642 , twenty years after the Amboyna ' massacre ' , and at the height of Dutch colonial power . The Dutch had called the country , which they at first thought ...
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Preface | 9 |
The Island Base | 21 |
The Muscovy Company Persia and | 33 |
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